Dominic Sandbrook
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Appearances Over Time
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So it takes them about four hours to get their men ashore, the Anzacs.
That's amazing.
They do get ashore.
Really?
It is.
It's very impressive.
I mean, that opening reading, I mean, they do perform very, very bravely.
Yeah.
They start to push up the hill, up inland, but it is clear that their guiding assumption was wrong.
The Turks have not cut and run quite the reverse.
So this is another guy, Eric Moorhead from Victoria.
He says, basically, they went up the hill.
They're expecting to see the enemy there.
We were now in a scrub-covered plain fairly in the open.
No Turks would have been seen, but the air was literally full of bullets and the sound was deafening.
The point-blank explosion of rifles and the concealed snipers firing on us at close quarters.
Our bayonet charge had failed.
The men became disorganised.
Some ran about distractedly, poking in the bushes for Turks.
Others fell on their faces, nerve-wracked by the terrible fire.