... mates, in the worst of circumstances. 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 ... once desolate, gunshot-ridden Gallipoli Peninsula, was the crow's pecking at the thousands of rows of rotting corpses. A young Mel Gibson stars in this 1980's, set in 1915, epic as Frank Dunne. A sprinter from ...

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