The book The Story of the Great War was written by author Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962 Here you can read free online of The Story of the Great War book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Story of the Great War a good or bad book?
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Suvla Bay was brought into the area of conflict as a climax of blunder to the tragedy of the campaign against Gallipoli. The scene of THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1915 159 the long weary months of fighting was along those ten or eleven miles from Gaba Tepe to the beaches of Cape Helles. A description of the territory just mentioned will give you some idea of the difficulties that confronted the Brit- ish troops. And in following the Gallipoli fighting you must keep it in mind, and in doing so you will not ...wonder at the failure of these troops to defeat the Turks, but you will be thrilled with admiration at the bravery they dis- played. On the narrow strip of land from Cape Suvla to Cape Helles are three dominating hills. The first is Sari Bair, seven miles from Cape Suvla, which dominates and is nearly a thousand feet high; the second Kilid Bahr, seven miles south of Sari Bair, is a long plateau from five to seven hundred feet high running inland from the Straits to within two miles of the sea on the other side command- ing The Narrows; the third is the barren Achi Baba, five miles southwest of Kilid Bahr and six miles from Cape Helles, which is nearly six hundred feet high, and com- mands the beaches at Cape Helles.
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