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Gallipoli : the end of the myth
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to shorten the war by eliminating Turkey, creating a Balkan alliance against the Central Powers, and securing a sea route to Russia. This book assesses the myths that have emerged about Gallipoli and provides answers to questions that have lingered about the operation.
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Gallipoli
The noted historian's decisive and devastating history of the WWI Battle of Gallipoli \"sets a new standard for assessing the Allied Dardanelles campaign\" (Mustafa Aksakal, American Historical Review ).
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Gallipoli as a combined and joint operation
It is ironic that one of the first combined and joint operations of the twentieth
century began life as an operation that was specifically designed to preclude the
use of soldiers. Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty on the outbreak of World War I, had been casting about since the beginning of the conflict
to find a way to use the navy to influence the war on land. A number of schemes
put forward by him all came to grief on two grounds. First, all Churchill’s naval
advisors thought the proposals risked ships from the Grand Fleet in mine-and
torpedo-infested waters. Second, the War Office and its formidable head, Lord
Horatio Kitchener, insisted that there were no troops to land anywhere.1
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Review Article: Lesser Powers among the Big Powers: Eastern Europe, Switzerland and the Second World War
Prior reviews \"Switzerland and the Second World War\" edited by Georg Kreis and \"Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War\" by Anita J. Prazmowska.
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