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An unforgettable story told through the eyes of a boy who lied about his age to defend his country. The Great Gallipoli Escape By: Jackie French Narrated by: Victor Gralak Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. He is one of the few trusted with the secret kept from even most of the officers: how an entire army will vanish from the Peninsula over three impeccably planned nights.īased on first-hand accounts of those extraordinary last weeks of the Gallipoli campaign, this is the fascinating 'lost story' of how 150,000 men – and their horses and equipment – were secretly moved to waiting ships without a single life lost. Listen Free to Great Gallipoli Escape audiobook by Jackie French with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS. Nipper has played cricket with the Turks in the opposing dugout, dodged rocket fire and rescued desperate and drowning men when the blizzard snow melted. By November 1915 they know that that there is more to winning a war than courage. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. The author’s notes at the back of the book provide useful context for this powerful tale, one of countless stories, French notes, that may vary in many respects but still be true.Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. The fact that this Herculean feat was carried out over consecutive nights without any loss of life is incredulous.
French crafts a cast of credible and sympathetic characters to populate this story, including sixteen-year-old Nipper, one of the few men holding the secret that an entire army would soon be moved under cloak of darkness to a waiting ship.
April 2023, 304 pp, RRP $16.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781460762127įrom celebrated author Jackie French comes the “lost” story of the extraordinary withdrawal of Anzacs in the final days of the Gallipoli campaign.īased on first-hand accounts (diaries, letters, oral histories and memories), The Great Gallipoli Escape offers compelling insight into a brave, impeccably planned evacuation of Anzacs kept secret from all but a few trusted sources. Jackie French, The Great Gallipoli Escape, HarperCollins Australia.
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