Military Misfortunes by Eliot A Cohen & John Gooch

Author:Eliot A Cohen & John Gooch [Cohen, Eliot A & Gooch, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780029060605
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The place is like a sand-pit on a huge scale—raw sandslopes and precipices alternating with steep slopes covered with low scrub—the scrub where it exists is pretty dense.66

Facing what seemed to be an endless series of ravines and knife-edged ridges that often bisected each other like a maze and were clothed with scrub so thick that a man standing 5 yards away was invisible, the Anzacs’ attack halted at the end of the first day in “country which would have been well-nigh impassable even in peace manoeuvres.”67

The hills surrounding Suvla Bay—up which Hamilton proposed to launch a night attack on August 8–9—were equally forbidding:

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