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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Walking in Their Grave Clothes : An Australian nurse’s war diary, 1914–1918
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Mudros, 1915 : Two French nurses with the Army of the East
by Jeanne Antelme, Elisabeth Jardin
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Letters from Helles : The uncensored correspondence of a battalion commander at Gallipoli
by Colonel Sir Henry Darlington
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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.