At the gates of the Dardanelles Coming soon

The French at Gallipoli, in their own words. Translated into English for the first time, At the Gates of the Dardanelles presents the complete war diary — the Journal des marches et opérations — of the General Headquarters of the Corps expéditionnaire d’Orient, covering the campaign from pre-landing planning in February 1915 to the evacuation in December.

The daily entries record the landing at Kum Kale, the long grinding battles at Cape Helles, and the constant work of a corps headquarters at war: operational orders, intelligence summaries, artillery coordination, and the daily traffic between the French command and its British allies. The diary reveals a professional, well-led force whose contribution to the campaign has been all but absent from the English-language literature.

Thomas P. Iredale’s translation is annotated and extensively mapped, with appendices covering casualties, landings and evacuations — both an engaging read and a valuable work of reference. A foreword by Dr Edward J. Erickson, author of Gallipoli: The Ottoman Campaign, places the diary in its historiographical context.

Every copy unlocks the original French records behind the translation. Enter the access code printed in your book to download the complete GHQ diary as a searchable PDF — 351 pages, bookmarked by volume, with the seven volumes also available individually. The Pièces justificatives — the corps’ supporting documents from April to September 1915 – are included and likewise searchable. So are the complete page images of every item exactly as digitised, colour maps included, along with the Minute: the handwritten draft from which the fair copy was compiled.