Gallipoli Diary

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The Great War was among the very pugnacious and inhumane battles in the history of humankind. Millions of people died and the disaster was complicated by the circumstance that these were all men who were very young. They both went through substantial damages and this battle is also noteworthy for being among in which innumerable new and dreadful weaponries were made known by both to kill one another.

Gallipoli Diary created by John Graham Gillam is some of the countless subjective accounts penned by the fighters of this blood spattered war. Produced in 1918, when recollections of the battle were still new in the thoughts of those who had suffered from it, it is in reality a portion of history for contemporary book lovers who chance upon it almost one hundred years after.

John Graham Gillam was a juvenile supply officer of the British Army. Although he did not take part of the real combat, his squadron was in command of safeguarding that the units got food and weaponries in their troughs. His narrations are exemplified by his necessity to “bear witness” to the incidents and document them as they transpired. His anguish as he sees life after juvenile life extinguished is ricocheted in many of the much tender phrases in the text, “All that is left to us is to hang on day by day.. Death in various forms walks with us always…”

The absolute devastation and pointlessness of the clash are what persist in the peruser’s thoughts in the last pages of Gallipoli Diary and up to the next generations perceive from the teachings of history, they are fated to reprise it.

When he was 42 years of age, he wedded the Lily Sheil, who was 18 years of age, and became famous using the designation Sheilah Graham as a gossip columnist and for her romantic relations with F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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