Word: gallipolis
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Fisher was near right. The Allies sent half a million men to Gallipoli and half of them suffered wounds or death. The Turks' losses were equally heavy. But the glory seemed close and real as the Allies girded for battle in the arena of the ancients...
...GALLIPOLI (384 pp.) - Alan Moore-head- Harper...
...British feel an emotional attachment to gallant defeats and desperate defenses that no mere victory can rival. Thus the Gallipoli campaign of World War I has always ranked high in British hearts, along with the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the siege of Tobruk...
...Gallipoli became a British synonym for "gallantry and folly" is the burden of the latest book by Alan Moorehead, Australian World War II war correspondent (North Africa, Europe). His account of this last great battle for Constantinople, when Western man last fought for "glory" and "immortality," gleams like a ribbon on khaki...
...just before elections. But while more colorful Laborites battled noisily, Attlee quietly gathered supporters, soon was laying down the Labor line with undisputed authority. Before his leadership was a year old, he firmly turned the party from Lansbury's doctrinaire pacifism (he himself was an infantry major at Gallipoli in World War I). He grimly warned Conservatives celebrating "peace in our time" that Munich was "one of the greatest defeats that this country and France have ever sustained." Though leader of a movement traditionally sympathetic to Russia and suspicious of the U.S. Attlee ranged his nation alongside...