Gallipoli Campaign

Gallipoli was a 1981 fil produced by Peter Weir that shows that Gallipoli and the war in general was not as pleasant or fun as it was all cracked up to be, the film shows that even though some causes are worth giving a life for, some others are not worth it, the Gallipoli campaign was one of them, which was a short lived campaign and a fail, which resulted in the loss of many lives that could’ve been avoided. While the first thing I will explain isn’t directly related to the book, I will include it anyway. The Gallipoli campaign was a very short sighted and rushed campaign which resulted in many deaths on the ANZAC side, most of these deaths happened at the landing, as the ships managed to land at a massive hill where Turkish Forces had built emplacements around the top of this hill, as well as laying barbed wire over the
Robinson wasn’t going to stop them there, he radioed the troops to keep pushing forward, as this is happening Archy was ordered to sprint back to the main base and order the commander there to stop the charge, he sets off and after some reasoning gets an approval to stop the quickly failing assault, but just as he gets there the radio operator has told them to charge, Archy is extremely disappointed with himself, in his anger he gets rid of his gear and jumps up out of the trenches and starts sprinting at them with all his energy, he is eventually shot and killed. These final events in the movie show how one order from a different commander could’ve saved tens, if not hundreds of soldiers and