 By: Shubham Upadhyay

Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey February 19, 1915 – January 6, 1916

Allied Powers British Empire France Central Powers Ottoman Empire Germany Austria-Hungary

First attack on February 19 Main attack on March 18 Ottoman empire claimed victory

Led by Sir Hamilton – British Army Cape Halles  Lost 20,000 men Sulva Bay  Fought in blazing heat

Allies 220,000 Central Powers 253,000 Casualties

It happens on a Monday, at 11:20 A.M., as tower guards eat sandwiches and seagulls drift by on the Tigris River. Prisoners tilt their heads to the west though burlap sacks and duct tape blind them. The sound reverberates down concertina coils the way piano wire thrums when given slack. And it happens like this, on a blue day of sun, when Private Miller pulls the trigger to take brass and fire into his mouth: the sound lifts the birds up off the water, a mongoose pauses under the orange trees, and nothing can stop it now, no matter what blur of motion surrounds him, no matter what voices crackle over the radio in static confusion, because if only for this moment the earth is stilled, and Private Miller has found what low hush there is down in the eucalyptus shade, there by the river.

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