Gallipoli - Film Review

The decision to commit allied forces to the desolate Gallipoli Peninsula of southern turkey in April of 1915, was a result of a plan by Winston Churchill to attack Germany through its Turkish ally. The proposal was supposed to threaten the Turkish capital, Constantinople, and thus forcing the surrender of the Turks. The amount of men sent out to achieve to

Although Gibson and Lee are in basically every scene, the minor roles are acted out in a manor of which that would make one believe that you were watching film right back from 1915. They don’t lack any emotions, which is what to be expected in such harsh circumstances.

On the first morn of the landings, evacuation had already been discussed. It was overruled due to Sir Ian Hamilton’s reasoning’s that evacuation would be impossible to execute at the time. 2000 ANZACS were lost on that first day.

In December, after months of failed plans, 26,111 Australian casualties, of which 8,141 were killed, the ANZACS were evacuated from Gallipoli. The evacuation was really the most successful part of the campaign, hardly any lives were lost. It was a masterpiece of planning. Over a period of several weeks, various red herrings weer employed to convince the Turks that the line was still solidly held. On the 20th of December, the only thing left on the once desolate, gunshot-ridden Gallipoli Peninsula, was the crow’s pecking at the thousands of ro

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