Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Gallipoli Campaign: A Guide for Family Historians

The prolific military publishers Pen & Sword [sic] already have in stock a book on researching participants in the First World War (Fowler, 2013), but the centenary of the War has prompted them to begin a series of more specialised ones, each devoted to a particular campaign. To judge by this example, the result is a hybrid. Not much more than half of the book is concerned with genealogical research; the remainder provides a general description of the campaign, enlivened by several substantial extracts from later works by veterans of it. The author, as a former archivist at...