Redoubt Military History Series: Gallipoli with Peter Hart

One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. 

It had begun as a bold move led by the British to ultimately capture Constantinople, in this talk Peter Hart explains that from the initial landings - which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from aircraft overhead - to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a lunacy that was never going to succeed.

Drawing on unpublished personal accounts by individuals at all levels and from all sides - not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and France too - Peter combines his trademark eye for vivid personal stories with a strong narrative to bring a modern view of this military disaster to today's audience.

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions. Tea and coffee served during the interval.


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