HISTORY. AUSTRALIAN. In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches at Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of assults in an all-out attempt to break the deadlock and achieve a decisive victory. The "August Offensive" resulted in heartbreaking failure and costly losses on both sides. Many of the sites of the bloody struggle became famous names: Lone Pine, The Nek, Chunuk Bair, Hill 60, Suvla Bay. Debate has continued to the present day over the stratergy and planning, the real or illusory opportunities for success, and the cause of failure in what became the last throw of the dice for the Allies.

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