5/30/2023 0 Comments Gallipoli by Peter Hart![]() ![]() Author Peter Hart explains that It was a scheme rather then a well planned campaign and it was doomed from the start. It caused Great Briton to lose prestige which some say, was the first step in the unraveling of the empire. That remains Gallipoli's enduring appeal. The Gallipoli campaign is one of military history’s greatest disasters. He is at his best, however, in explaining and presenting the "near-superhuman courage and endurance" of the combatants. ![]() Ian Hamilton's on-the%E2%80%93spot fecklessness. Hart excoriates the haphazard romanticism of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. The Turkish army, on the other hand, profited from its defeat in the Balkan War of 1911%E2%80%931912 and from its military relationship with Germany the Turkish army won the battle of Gallipoli even more than the Allies lost it, according to Hart. The often-overlooked French were effective, but poorly used on the Helles front. Troops were poorly trained and badly led. Such alleged strategic benefits as reducing pressure on Russia, says Hart, were largely ephemeral. But the human element still defines this compelling account of an operation Hart dismisses as a "lunacy that never could have succeeded," driven by wishful thinking as opposed to the professional analysis of ends and means. This book depends more on archival work and on recent Turkish and French research than Hart's earlier collaboration with Nigel Steelin, Defeat at Gallipoli. ![]() Hart, oral historian of Britain's Imperial War Museum, focuses on the Gallipoli campaign. ![]()
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