The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered

In The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered , World War I historian Peter Liddle reexamines the British military operation that ended in Allied defeat. The Gallipoli Campaign is generally viewed as a disastrous failure of the First World War, inadequately redeemed by the heroism of the soldiers and sailors who were involved in the fighting. But before the first landings were made, the concept of a strike at the Dardanelles seemed to offer a short cut to victory in a war without prospect of end. The