This book, based on comprehensive archival research in official and private papers, offers a new history of the infamous British disaster at Gallipoli in 1915. Contrary to all previous accounts, it shows that the campaign originated not in the search for an alternative to the Western Front, but in the need to lower the price of bread in Britain.
This book, based on comprehensive archival research in official and private papers, offers a new history of the infamous British disaster at Gallipoli in 1915. Contrary to all previous accounts, it shows that the campaign originated not in the search for an alternative to the Western Front, but in the need to lower the price of bread in Britain.
Nicholas A. Lambert is the prize-winning author of Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution and Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War. Between 2016 and 2018, he held the Class of 1957 Chair at the United States Naval Academy.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Dramatis Personae Introduction Chapter 1: Britannia's Achilles Heel Chapter 2: War in a Globalized World Chapter 3: The Turkish Irritant Chapter 4: The Beggar Giant Chapter 5: The Military and Diplomatic Strands Chapter 6: The Political and Economic Strands Chapter 7: Two Problems, One Solution Chapter 8: Seven Days in January Chapter 9: Not Such a Bargain Chapter 10: The Fortunes of War Chapter 11: This Wicked Gamble Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Dramatis Personae Introduction Chapter 1: Britannia's Achilles Heel Chapter 2: War in a Globalized World Chapter 3: The Turkish Irritant Chapter 4: The Beggar Giant Chapter 5: The Military and Diplomatic Strands Chapter 6: The Political and Economic Strands Chapter 7: Two Problems, One Solution Chapter 8: Seven Days in January Chapter 9: Not Such a Bargain Chapter 10: The Fortunes of War Chapter 11: This Wicked Gamble Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
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