At Suvla Bay
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in First World War military history
- History enthusiasts wanting first-hand accounts of the Gallipoli campaign
- Students and researchers needing First World War battlefield texts for reference
- Readers who enjoy military memoirs and battlefield documentary writing
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking comprehensive campaign analysis or strategic studies
- Casual readers who prefer light novels or fiction
- Beginners with limited English reading ability and no annotated support
Reading tips
- Look up the basic background of the Gallipoli campaign and the Suvla Bay landing before reading.
- Note place names and the timeline as you read to keep the narrative thread clear.
- Read the first-hand account alongside a campaign overview and note the differences in perspective.
- Read in sections, briefly reviewing the author's experiences and impressions after each.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
John Hargrave (1894–1982) was a British writer and illustrator, and a reformer of the Scout movement who founded an organization called "Kibbo Kift." His writing and drawing were often connected with youth activities and social movements, reflecting an interest in outdoor life, discipline, and collective spirit. His representative work, At Suvla Bay, is set in the Suvla Bay area during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War; it belongs to war writing and carries the documentary quality of an eyewitness account. Because public information is limited, his full life, educational background, and other works cannot be described in detail. Only one of his works is held in the current collection, so understanding of him rests mainly on this representative title and his known organizational activities. Overall, Hargrave was a British author who combined adventure, wartime experience, and the ideals of youth movements.
