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Sylvia Fitzpaine comes from a titled family with all the advantages of class that the aristocracy can offer in 1915. These are grossly troubled times though, with men including her father the Brigadier General and her fiancé Arthur away at war. The Brigadier General seems safe at the moment in Cairo but Arthur has been sent into the thick of it. He sits in a ship awaiting embarkation just off the coast of a little known Turkish region, the very name of which will one day summon images of terror and ill-thought-out tactics. Arthur is on his way to Gallipoli.
Celebrated British author [[:Category:Rachel Billington|Rachel Billington]] comes from an aristocratic family in the senses of both heritage and literature. Rachel is daughter of Lord Longford, sister to [[:Category:Antonia Fraser(editor)|Antonia Fraser]] and her mother, Elizabeth Longford, has a historical fiction prize named after her. In the case of ''Glory'' ancestry is important to Rachel as the novel has been written in tribute to her grandfather, Brigadier General Thomas, Earl of Longford who died at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli.
One hundred years ago the campaign itself was to be one of the allied strategists' greatest moments. Planned by people like Winston Churchill (then First Lord of the Admiralty) as the first step to seizing Constantinople, it became a blood bath for each of the nations present and a victory for the Turks and Germans. It's estimated that, overall, more than 353,600 people were injured or missing and a devastatingly conservative suggestion of over 117,800 dying.
