![]() ![]() The issue would lead in the end to the break-up of Churchill and Fisher’s hitherto close friendship. Moorehead outlines the political manœvrings between Kitchener and Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) on the for side and Lord Fisher (First Sea Lord) with various others against. The idea out of which the landings on Gallipoli arose came from Lt-Col Hankey, Secretary of the War Council, as an attempt to evade the impasse on the Western Front, where the Allies were neither advancing nor killing more Germans than British soldiers were being killed, by a flanking move through Turkey and the Balkans. ![]() ![]() This one focuses more on the personalities central to the story of Turkey’s involvement in the Great War – the Young Turks, Mustafa Kemal, Lord Kitchener, Winston Churchill, and the various commanders – as well as the details of the many military engagements which marked the Dardanelles enterprise. It is lucidly written and mercifully free of the alphanumeric soup of formation designations which tends to bedevil works of military history. The author was clearly well versed in his subject. Quite why I left it so long I’m not sure but I’m glad now I picked it up. ![]() This book has been languishing on my tbr pile for decades. ![]()
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