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Our life here is truly hellish. Fortunately, my soldiers are very brave and tougher than the enemy.
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Letter to Corinne Lütfü, from the Gallipoli peninsula (20 July 1917) as translated in Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey (2002) by Andrew Mango. ISBN 158567334X

 

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