A Prelude to Gallipoli: The Battle of Broken Hill 1915 (Paperback)

~ Omer Ertur (Author)

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A Prelude to Gallipoli reflects upon a unique period of global military conflicts stretching all the way from the shores of Gallipoli peninsula in the European part of the Ottoman Empire to a small town in the Australian desert. This fictionalized historical novel presents a challenging and thought-provoking story that is based on a restructured and revised slice of history. It intriguingly reinterprets a bloody political incident that occurred in 1915 in a small desert town in Australia from a viewpoint that touches upon some of the historical precedents of the ongoing global terrorism and its relevancy to the state-sponsored terrorism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Omer Ertur (February 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974125326
• ISBN-13: 978-0974125329
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #571,531 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars banned in Australia?, December 2, 2006

By	Robert Chase (Liberty Lake, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Omer Ertur has done as an excellent job of recreating the central characters in this drama that directly led to the tragedy of Gallipoli a short time later.

Why would two Afghans, in the middle of Australia, don uniforms with a Turkish flag and kill their innocent neighbors on a picnic train? This unlikely incident prompted a formerly reluctant Australia to offer the flower of her youth to the disposal of the British Empire as cannon fodder. Targeted in the attack were a union leader and minister which brought the support of the unions and Church behind the war effort. The two Afghans were immediately killed and buried without a trace. Along with the government's success in bringing their country into the war, the BHP mining company erased its labor problems and inquest into selling their products to the Germans. The yellow journalism of the day did the rest without any inquest into the many unanswered questions. This book could not be published in Australia, but I am glad I live in a country that allows the freedom to look at all angles and interests.

Ertur's research into the incident creates a plausible scenario that fills in many blanks along with character development that evokes interest and readability.

Thanks for an interesting book and good read!