The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Gallipoli From the Turkish Side
RCC7914
The Struggle for The Dardanelles. The Memoirs of a German Staff Officer in Ottoman Service.
by Erich Prigge
ISBN
9781783030453
Purchase Price
£8.64 (new)
Date Purchased
April 12, 2020
Publisher
Pen & Sword Military (2017, Barnsley, South Yorks)
Notes
The Translator involved in this book was Dr. Philip Runce. We have a substantial number of books on the Gallipoli Campaign. But there are so few written from the Turkish aspect, and the more we have, the better researchers will be equipped to understand the nature of the fighting. This book is actually a translation of two separate books. First, there is "Der Kampf um die Dardanellen" ("The Struggle for The Dardanelles") first published by Verlag GUstav Kiepenheur, Weimar, in 1916. This was an account of the battle which Erich Prigge, who was an Adjutant to Liman von Sanders, was instructed to write, but which was on sale for only a few months in early 1916 before a complaint fro the Ottoman GHQ induced the German Authorities to order the book's withdrawal. Secondly, later in 1916 a substantially revised, censored and extended version of Prigge's text was published as "Gallipoli, der Kampf um der Orient" ("Gallipoli, the Struggle for The Orient"), anonymously ascribed to "an officer on the staff of Marshal von Sanders". There is a very comprehensive, c130 page Introduction, by the Translator, which delves deeply into the background to this whole matter. Then there follow the translations of the two books. It follows that this is, possibly, one of the most important books that we have in the Collection on the subject of the Gallipoli Campaign.
9781783030453
Purchase Price
£8.64 (new)
Date Purchased
April 12, 2020
Publisher
Pen & Sword Military (2017, Barnsley, South Yorks)
Notes
The Translator involved in this book was Dr. Philip Runce. We have a substantial number of books on the Gallipoli Campaign. But there are so few written from the Turkish aspect, and the more we have, the better researchers will be equipped to understand the nature of the fighting. This book is actually a translation of two separate books. First, there is "Der Kampf um die Dardanellen" ("The Struggle for The Dardanelles") first published by Verlag GUstav Kiepenheur, Weimar, in 1916. This was an account of the battle which Erich Prigge, who was an Adjutant to Liman von Sanders, was instructed to write, but which was on sale for only a few months in early 1916 before a complaint fro the Ottoman GHQ induced the German Authorities to order the book's withdrawal. Secondly, later in 1916 a substantially revised, censored and extended version of Prigge's text was published as "Gallipoli, der Kampf um der Orient" ("Gallipoli, the Struggle for The Orient"), anonymously ascribed to "an officer on the staff of Marshal von Sanders". There is a very comprehensive, c130 page Introduction, by the Translator, which delves deeply into the background to this whole matter. Then there follow the translations of the two books. It follows that this is, possibly, one of the most important books that we have in the Collection on the subject of the Gallipoli Campaign.
