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.
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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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Letters from Helles : The uncensored correspondence of a battalion commander at Gallipoli
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Floatplanes Over The Desert : The Adventures of French & British Naval Airmen Over Sea & Desert Sand 1914-1918
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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.
‘If the Turks aren’t careful, they’ll crack these eggs’
On 5 July 1915, under shellfire near Krithia Nullah, Signaller Arthur Poole boiled eggs for his mates and joked about the Turkish gunners. Minutes later he was dead. Alec Riley recorded it all in ‘Gallipoli Diary 1915’.