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THIS IS THE STORY of the parallel lives of two men who fought on opposite sides at Gallipoli. They each came to lead their countries, never met, but grew to respect and understand each other after the bloodletting on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915.
Stanley Melbourne Bruce and Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk) were born during the belle epoque of European civilisation which was torn asunder in the First World War. Each was born into an empire: one into the British empire then at the height of its strength, and the other into the once great but declining Ottoman empire.
Bruce was born in Victoria in 1883, the youngest of five children of an Irish immigrant of ...