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G a l l i p o l i
"It is important to push on"
- From Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead
The movie Gallipoli, directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson, and Mark Lee, and the book Gallipoli written by Alan Moorehead are two very different accounts of the same event in World War I. ... Unanimously it was decided that Britain should prepare for a naval expedition to bombard and take the Gallipoli peninsula with Constantinople (present day Istanbul) as its objective, since it was thought that Turkey’s position was incredibly weak. ...
This particular battle was the one that I was most interested in while reading this book because it is the one that most closely mirrors what occurred in the film Gallipoli, unfortunately there is not much written about this particular event. The book goes on to detail many other battles and circumstances surrounding this ill-fated attempt to secure the Gallipoli peninsula until the remaining soldiers who had managed to survive were evacuated under the advice of a General Monro. This evacuation was literally the only operation at Gallipoli to end in complete success; Monro was able to orchestrate it so that the Allied forces did not lose one soldier during the evacuation. ... No medals or decorations were given to the soldiers who actually fought in the Gallipoli campaign. ... Over 500,000 Allied Forces’ troops fought in the Gallipoli campaign and about 300,000 resulted in casualties. ... After all, what happened at Gallipoli is arguably one of the biggest tragedies and failures of World War I. As far as information is concerned, this book definitely enlightened me as to what really happened during those months at Gallipoli, from all angles, not just the ANZAC perspective that the film Gallipoli takes on. ...
The film Gallipoli (1981, directed by Peter Weir) addresses the same subject as Moorehead’s book but on a much smaller scale, from one point of view, and with a lot more emotion. ...
Finally it is time for the ANZAC troops to be deployed to Gallipoli. ... Even with this one little glimpse into a small part of the grand scheme of what Gallipoli was, the audience is able to grasp the enormity of the tragedy at Gallipoli. ...
The question of which, the book versus the movie, tells the story of Gallipoli “better” is a mute point, because they are both so different it is difficult to compare the two. ... Moorehead’s book is a factual account of all the events that transpired during the several months of the Gallipoli campaign, while Weir’s film is an emotional anti-war statement illustrating the atrocities of war from the perspectives of the soldiers involved.
Approximate Word count = 2105
Approximate Pages = 8.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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