The great Gallipoli escape Jackie French
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- 8842768
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- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales
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- Sydney, NSW Angus&Robertson 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource (224 pages) illustrations.
- 1 online resource. illustrations.
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- 1460714938
- 9781460714935
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Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is more to winning a war than courage. The Gallipoli campaign has been lost. Nipper has played cricket with the Turks in the opposing dugout, dodged rocket fire and rescued desperate and drowning men when the blizzard snow melted. He is one of the few trusted with the secret kept from even most of the officers: how an entire army will vanish from the Peninsula over three impeccably planned nights. Based on first-hand accounts of those extraordinary last weeks of the Gallipoli campaign, this is the fascinating 'lost story' of how 150,000 men - and their horses and equipment - were secretly moved to waiting ships without a single life lost. An unforgettable story told through the eyes of a boy who lied about his age to defend his country.
Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is more to winning a war than courage. The Gallipoli campaign has been lost. Nipper has played cricket with the Turks in the opposing dugout, dodged rocket fire and rescued drowning, freezing men when the blizzard snow melted. He is one of the few trusted with the secret kept from even most of the officers: how an entire army will vanish from the Peninsula over three impeccably planned nights. Based on first-hand accounts of those extraordinary last weeks of the Gallipoli campaign, this is the fascinating 'lost story' of how 150,000 men - and their horses and equipment - were secretly moved to waiting ships without a single life lost. An unforgettable story told through the eyes of a boy who lied about his age to defend his country.
Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is more to winning a war than courage. The Gallipoli campaign has been lost.Nipper has played cricket with the Turks in the opposing dugout, dodged rocket fire and rescued desperate and drowning men when the blizzard snow melted. He is one of the few trusted with the secret kept from even most of the officers: how an entire army will vanish from the Peninsula over three impeccably planned nights.Based on first-hand accounts of those extraordinary last weeks of the Gallipoli campaign, this is the fascinating 'lost story' of how 150,000 men - and their horses and equipment - were secretly moved to waiting ships without a single life lost. An unforgettable story told through the eyes of a boy who lied about his age to defend his country.
Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that there is more to winning a war than courage. The Gallipoli campaign has been lost. Nipper has played cricket with the Turks in the opposing dugout, dodged rocket fire and rescued desperate and drowning men when the blizzard snow melted. He is one of the few trusted with the secret, kept from even most of the officers: how an entire army will vanish from the Peninsula over three impeccably planned nights. Based on first-hand accounts of those extraordinary last weeks of the Gallipoli campaign, this is the fascinating 'lost story' of how 150,000 men - and their horses and equipment - were secretly moved to waiting ships without a single life lost. An unforgettable story told through the eyes of a boy who lied about his age to defend his country.
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- Title from title screen.
- Children
- Ages 10+.
- Children.
- Also available in print.
- Related Title:
- Alma Collection Pedagogies in Practice
- Awards:
- Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable, Book of the year: younger readers. 2024.
- Subject:
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- Great Britai ?b Army ?b Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ?v Juvenile fiction
- Great Britai ‡b Army ‡b Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ‡v Juvenile fiction
- Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's stories
- Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) -- History -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Literature
- Soldiers ‡z Australia ‡v Juvenile fiction
- Soldiers -- Fiction
- Soldiers -- Australia -- Fiction
- Soldiers -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage boys ‡z Australia ‡v Juvenile fiction
- Teenage boys -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- War fiction
- War stories
- World War, 1914-1918 ‡x Participation, Australian ‡v Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Military & war fiction
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces
- Children's / Teenage: True stories told as fiction
- Juvenile Fiction - Boys & Men
- Juvenile Fiction - Historical - Military & Wars
- Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - Australia & Oceania
- Juvenile Fiction - School & Education
- Military campaigns
- Soldiers
- Gallipoli (Turkey) ‡x History ‡y 20th century ‡v Juvenile fiction
- Gallipoli (Turkey) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) -- Fiction
- Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) -- Juvenile fiction
- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula
- Australian
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