The Battle of Hill 60 - Lunatic Persistence in Gallipoli I THE GREAT WAR - Week 57

Check out our Amazon store if you are hungry for World War 1 books: Peter Hart described the state of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 as “lunatic persistence in the face of the obvious“ - and the Battle of Hill 60 proved just that. Outgunned and with a lack of artillery support, the battle was one of the bloodiest days on the peninsular near Constantinople. The Ottoman capital was still out of reach for the Entente to capture. Meanwhile, the war spread to the Indian border region and