Description
Title: The Story of Gallipoli – The film about the men who made a legend
Author: Gammage, Bill
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 0140061053
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 158 pages
Comments: The story of the movie “Gallipoli”. Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian war drama film directed by Peter Weir and produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee. The film revolves around several young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War. They are sent to the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire (in modern-day Turkey), where they take part in the Gallipoli Campaign. During the course of the movie, the young men slowly lose their innocence about the purpose of war. The climax of the movie occurs on the Anzac battlefield at Gallipoli, depicting the futile attack at the Battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915. It modifies events for dramatic purposes and contains a number of significant historical inaccuracies.
