Book review: Neither Unionist Nor Nationalist: The 10th (Irish) Division in the Great War

Stephen Sandford Irish Academic Press, €24.95 

Even the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele seem pale in comparison with the deaths of some 50,000 troops from Britain, France, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand during a futile battle to win control of the Black Sea Straits.

The Gallipoli peninsular guards the entrance to the Black Sea and at that time blocked communications between Britain and France and their ally, Russia.