The Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was the site of one of the most tragic and memorable battles of the 20th century, with the Turks fighting the ANZAC (Australian New Zealand Army Corps) and soldiers from fifteen other countries. This book is about the history of its landscape, its people, and its heritage, from the day that the defeated Allied troops of World War One evacuated the peninsula in January 1916 to the present. It examines how the wartime heritage of this region, both tangible and intangible, is currently being redefined by the Turkish state to reflect a faith-based rather than secularist narrative about the origins of the country.

This book provides a timely and fascinating look at what has happened in the last century to a landscape that was devastated and emptied of its inhabitants at the end of World War One, how it recovered, and why this geography has again become a site of contested heritage. It will be a key text to scholars of cultural and historical geography, military history, conflict studies, European studies, heritage studies, politics and international relations.