The Dardanelles Disaster

Author : Dan Van Der Vat
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468303163
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dardanelles Disaster written by Dan Van Der Vat and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed naval military expert Dan van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles prolonged the war by two years, led to the Russian Revolution, forced Britain to the brink of starvation, and contributed to the destabilization of the Middle East. With never before published information on Colonel Geehl's mine laying operation, which won the battle for the Germans, The Dardanelles Disaster is essential reading for everyone interested in great naval history, Churchill's early career, and World War I.

Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408856166
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gallipoli written by Richard van Emden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an unrivalled account of what really happened at Gallipoli. Van Emden's gripping narrative and lucid analysis of Churchill's infamous operation, complements Chambers's evocative images, showing how the rapid spread of diseases like dissentry, the lack of clean water and food, the tremendous losses on both sides affected morale, until finally in January 1916, in what were the best-laid plans of the entire disastrous campaign, the Allies successfully fooled the Turkish forces and evacuated their troops from the peninsula with no additional casualties. Leading First World War historian Richard van Emden and Gallipoli expert Stephen Chambers have produced an entirely fresh, personal and illuminating study of one of the Great War's most catastrophic events.

Author : Nicholas A. Lambert
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Internationa
ISBN 13 : 0197545203
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster written by Nicholas A. Lambert and published by Oxford Studies in Internationa. This book was released on 2021 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on comprehensive archival research in official and private papers, offers a new history of the infamous British disaster at Gallipoli in 1915. Contrary to all previous accounts, it shows that the campaign originated not in the search for an alternative to the Western Front, but in the need to lower the price of bread in Britain.

Author : Christopher M. Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019870254X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Churchill and the Dardanelles written by Christopher M. Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the highly controversial First World War campaign that nearly destroyed Churchill's reputation for good and of his decades-long battle to set the record straight--a battle which ultimately helped clear the way for Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in Britain's "darkest hour."

Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disaster at the Dardanelles, 1915 written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas A. Lambert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197545211
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster written by Nicholas A. Lambert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade. In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world. After the Navy failed to breach Turkish defenses, British and allied ground forces stormed the Gallipoli peninsula but were unable to move off the beaches. Over the course of the year, the Allied landed hundreds of thousands of reinforcements but all to no avail. The Gallipoli campaign has gone down as one of the great disasters in the history of warfare. Previous works have focused on the battles and sought to explain the reasons for the British failure, typically focusing on First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. In this bold new account, Nicholas Lambert offers the first fully researched explanation of why Prime Minister Henry Asquith and all of his senior advisers--the War Lords--ordered the attacks in the first place, in defiance of most professional military opinion. Peeling back the manipulation of the historical record by those involved with the campaign's inception, Lambert shows that the original goals were political-economic rather than military: not to relieve pressure on the Western Front but to respond to the fall-out from the massive disruption of the international grain trade caused by the war. By the beginning of 1915, the price of wheat was rising so fast that Britain, the greatest importer of wheat in the world, feared bread riots. Meanwhile Russia, the greatest exporter of wheat in the world and Britain's ally in the east, faced financial collapse. Lambert demonstrates that the War Lords authorized the attacks at the Dardanelles to open the straits to the flow of Russian wheat, seeking to lower the price of grain on the global market and simultaneously to eliminate the need for huge British loans to support Russia's war effort. Carefully reconstructing the perspectives of the individual War Lords, this book offers an eye-opening case study of strategic policy making under pressure in a globalized world economy.

Author : Edmond Delage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of the Dardanelles written by Edmond Delage and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199836868
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gallipoli written by Peter Hart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Profile Books"--T.p. verso.

Author : Jack Richards
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473831806
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quintinshill Conspiracy written by Jack Richards and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the railway's Titanic. A horrific crash involving five trains in which 230 died and 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network.The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915. Amongst the dead and injured were women and children but most of the casualties were Scottish soldiers on their way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign. Territorials setting off for war on a distant battlefield were to die, not in battle, but on home soil victims, it was said, of serious incompetence and a shoddy regard for procedure in the signal box, resulting in two signalmen being sent to prison. Startling new evidence reveals that the failures which led to the disaster were far more complex and wide-reaching than signalling negligence. Using previously undisclosed documents, the authors have been able to access official records from the time and have uncovered ahighly shocking and controversial truth behind what actually happened at Quintinshill and the extraordinary attempts to hide the truth.As featured in Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine, January 2014.

Author : Sydney Alexander Moseley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth about the Dardanelles written by Sydney Alexander Moseley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: