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Written by a leading authority and featuring new research from Turkish sources, Gallipoli: Command Under Fire details the great tragedy of the fighting at Gallipoli.

Unique among World War I campaigns, the fighting at Gallipoli brought together a modern amphibious assault and multi-national combined operations. It took place on a landscape littered with classical and romantic sites – just across the Dardanelles from the ruins of Homer's Troy.

The campaign became, perhaps, the greatest 'what if' of the war. The concept behind it was grand strategy of the highest order, had it been successful it might have led to conditions ending the war two years early on Allied terms. This could have avoided the bloodletting of 1916–18, saved Tsarist Russia from revolution and side stepped the disastrous Treaty of Versailles – in effect, altering the course of the entire 20th century.

This study is the first to focus on operational and campaign-level decisions and actions, which drove the conduct of the campaign. It departs from emotive first-hand accounts and offers a broader perspective of the large scale military planning and maneuvering involved in this monstrous struggle on the shores of European Turkey.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of maps
List of illustrations

Introduction
1. The strategic setting
2. The opposing campaign plans
3. The naval assault, 19 February–18 March 1915
4. Arms and men: institutions, organizations and command
5. The amphibious assault, 19 March–30 April 1915
6. The Ottoman counter-offensives, 1 May–5 August 1915
7. The ANZAC breakout, 6–28 August 1915
8. The ending of the campaign, 29 August 1915–8 January 1916

Appendix
Endnotes
Select bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Mar 20 2015
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9781472813411
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 44 b/w
Series General Military
Short code GNM
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Edward J. Erickson

Edward J Erickson is Professor of Military History…

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