Grasping Gallipoli
Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Doyle, Peter
- ISBN: 978-0-7509-6357-2
- EAN: 9780750963572
- Produktnummer: 17371760
- Verlag: The History Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 364 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'488 KB
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