Word: gallipoli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lieut. General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay, 84, Australian war hero, who won the nickname "Iven the Terrible" at Gallipoli in World War I for single-handedly holding a trench under heavy Turkish assault for two hours, in World War II was a brilliant field officer, leading Anzac troops to a stunning victory in Libya before returning home in 1941 to gird against an invasion by Japan that happily never came; after a long illness; in Sydney...
...They have the British manner, right down to clipped accents, mustaches and swagger sticks. The enlisted men are also right out of Kipling's pages?sturdy Jats and turbaned Sikhs, rawboned Pathans and sinewy Sindhis, volunteers all, whose regimental flags are inscribed with battle names ranging from Ypres and Gallipoli to El Alamein and Monte Cassino and Rangoon...
...Destiny. After World War I broke out, Lieut. Colonel Kemal was assigned to Gallipoli. When the Allies struck, he alone among the Turkish officers guessed their intentions. He seized the heights and beat off attack after attack. Taking command of the entire front, he launched a surprise assault and drove the Anzacs back to the beaches. "Seldom in history," wrote the British official historian, "can the exertions of a single divisional commander have exercised so profound an influence on the fate of a campaign and even the destiny of a nation." Within weeks, Colonel Kemal became a national hero; within...
Tuesday, December 1 WORLD WAR I (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). The war in the Balkans and military disaster at Gallipoli...
...presenting a well-researched documentary that uses only stills and motion footage from archives. Its first segment moved swiftly, panoptically, and about as informatively as was possible in 30 minutes devoted to nothing less than all the causes and early events of the conflict. The pictures of Gallipoli and the Lusitania, young Göring and old Hindenburg were absorbing enough, but the best moments came in unexpected footnotes, such as Sigmund Freud's declaring: "All my libido is given to Austria-Hungary...