- 415 pages
- English
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Gallipoli 1915
About this book
**Why was the Allied naval assault of February/March 1915 so unsuccessful? ** Did the Ottoman Turks have knowledge of the Allied landings of 25 April 1915? And did Sir Ian Hamilton, the overall commander of the Allied forces at Gallipoli, really make a mistake in his intervention at Suvla? These questions and the key issue of why the Ottoman Turks won the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, or why the Allies lost it, have never been satisfactorily answered.
This new history of the Gallipoli campaign aims to answer them, while also telling the story of what actually happened through the voices of British, Australian and Turkish soldiers. In order to properly understand the bloody events of 1915, Tim Travers is the first historian of Gallipoli to use the general Staff Ottoman archives in Ankara to tell the other side of the story. Wide-ranging research in the Turkish archives as well as those in Australia, Britain, France and New Zealand, plus a significant newly discovered German source, has produced a startling new interpretation of the 1915 conflict. Moving from a study of the Western Front, Tim Travers has produced a challenging analysis of the enduring mysteries of the Gallipoli 1915 campaign.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue – A Family’s Sacrifice
- Preface – The Riddle of Gallipoli
- 1 The Origins of the Military Campaign and the Naval Attack at Gallipoli, February – March
- 2 Turkish Expectations of the Allied Landings
- 3 The Allied Landings at Helles and Kum Kale, 25 April
- 4 The Anzac Landing, 25 April
- 5 The Fighting at Helles and the May Turkish Crisis, April – July
- 6 The Anzac Breakout, August
- 7 Operations at Suvla and the Turkish Reaction
- 8 Allied and Turkish Technology Creates Stalemate
- 9 The Experience of Modern War at Gallipoli: Stress, Strain and Survival
- 10 Evacuation
- 11 Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles Commission: Collusion and Vindication
- Conclusion – The Turks, Hamilton and the Riddle of Gallipoli
- List of abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Appendix I – Select Chronology
- Appendix II – Allied Order of Battle: First Landings, April 1915
- Appendix III – Allied Order of Battle: August 1915
- Appendix IV – Maps
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Section