Can the Dardanelles be forced? What the General Staff said in 1906
Nine years before Gallipoli, a secret War Office paper ruled out forcing the Dardanelles – by the fleet alone, or with an army landed on the peninsula.
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Alive with death August 1914 – April 1915
By Jim Grundy
The first volume in a ground-breaking day-by-day history of the Gallipoli Campaign, narrated by those who were there.
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At the gates of the Dardanelles: The GHQ war diary of the French expeditionary corps, 1915 Coming soon
By Thomas P. Iredale (Translator)
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Walking in Their Grave Clothes: An Australian nurse’s war diary, 1914–1918
By Hilda Samsing, John Dixon (Editor)
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Mudros, 1915: Two French nurses with the Army of the East
By Jeanne Antelme, Elisabeth Jardin, Bernard de Broglio (Translator)
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Letters from Helles: The uncensored correspondence of a battalion commander at Gallipoli
By Colonel Sir Henry Darlington, Michael Crane (Editor), Bernard de Broglio (Editor)
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Floatplanes Over The Desert: The Adventures of French & British Naval Airmen Over Sea & Desert Sand 1914-1918
By Ian M. Burns
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Founded upon hope: what the Dardanelles Commission didn’t ask
Guest post by Jim Grundy, author of ‘Hell & Confusion’, on the fatal optimism the Dardanelles Commission failed to probe.
The Dardanelles Commission – reading the report that judged Gallipoli
What the Dardanelles Commission was, why its reports were deliberately mild, and a free searchable PDF of all three parts.