The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How globalized trade led Britain to its worst defeat of the First World War
Oxford University Press, £32.99 hb, 354 pp
A new war every week
The Gallipoli campaign has a peculiar fascination for historians of World War I. This new book, by British historian Nicholas A. Lambert, is concerned not so much with the conduct of the campaign as with the reasons for its being launched. The chances for its success were known at the time to be low, so why was this gamble, which cost perhaps 130,000 Allied and Ottoman lives, taken?
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The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How globalized trade led Britain to its worst defeat of the First World War
by Nicholas A. Lambert
Oxford University Press, £32.99 hb, 354 pp
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