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Hoover Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, as depicted in the sketchbook of Lieutenant Colonel M.J.W. Pike, commanding officer of the 5th Service Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, with the 31st Infantry Brigade. Pike’s drawings, which are housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, convey the stark contrast between the beautiful landscape of the Gallipoli Peninsula and the horrors of the trench warfare that took place there in 1915–1916. Winston Churchill championed the expedition, which resulted in a Turkish victory over the Allied forces.
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