Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915
✍ Scribed by Chasseaud, Peter; Doyle, Peter
- Book ID
- 108270210
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780750963572
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The failure of the Gallipoli campaign was instantly blamed on a great untruth - that the War Office was unprepared. This book, incorporating information unavailable elsewhere, shows that in fact the WO and the Admiralty had amassed a huge amount of data. Aerial reconnaissance had played a part - even Lawrence of Arabia had done his bit! The War Office knew all about Greek plans to capture the peninsula and one plan was even Anglo-Greek. The authors examine all the intelligence and how it was used or ignored and in the process, in the words of the late Richard Holmes they 'illuminate a wildly beautiful landscape, which never fails to charm and shock me in equal measure.'