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Compton Mackenzie recalls his experience of the Dardanelles campaign in Gallipoli Memories. The book follows wartime service through personal encounters, practical difficulties and the changing atmosphere around the expedition, giving the campaign the texture of a participant’s recollection rather than the structure of a detached military survey.
Mackenzie brings a novelist’s attention to conversations, personalities and the complications of working within military organisations. The memoir moves among the people and places connected with his service, linking episodes of daily life to the larger events surrounding Gallipoli. Its scope includes the situations in which decisions were made as well as the impressions they left on the author.
First published in 1929, the work is supplied in the complete American edition bearing the 1930 Doubleday, Doran imprint. The unchanged EPUB retains the full narrative, notes and original source material. It is intended for adult readers interested in firsthand accounts of the First World War and in Mackenzie’s autobiographical writing.