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Climax at Gallipoli - The Failure of the August Offensive (Paperback)
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Climax at Gallipoli - The Failure of the August Offensive (Paperback)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known
campaign of the First World War. And the story of Gallipoli, where
in August 1915 the Allied forces made their last valiant effort
against the Turks, is one of infamous might-have-beens. If only the
Allies had held out a little longer, pushed a little harder, had
better luck - Gallipoli might have been the decisive triumph that
knocked the Ottoman Empire out of the First World War. But the
story is just that, author Rhys Crawley tells us: a story. Not only
was the outcome at Gallipoli not close, but the operation was
flawed from the start, and an inevitable failure. A painstaking
effort to set the historical record straight, Climax at Gallipoli
examines the performance of the Allies' Mediterranean Expeditionary
Force from the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign to the bitter
end. Crawley reminds us that in 1915, the second year of the war,
the Allies were still trying to adapt to a new form of warfare,
with static defense replacing the maneuver and offensive strategies
of earlier British doctrine. In the attempt both the MEF at
Gallipoli and the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front
aimed for too much - and both failed. To explain why, Crawley
focuses on the operational level of war in the campaign,
scrutinizing planning, command, mobility, fire support,
interservice cooperation, and logistics. His work draws on
unprecedented research into the files of military organizations
across the United Kingdom and Australia. The result is a view of
the Gallipoli Campaign unique in its detail and scope, as well as
in its conclusions - a book that looks past myth and distortion to
the facts, and the truth, of what happened at this critical
juncture in twentieth-century history.
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