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Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915
Peter Chasseaud
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Description for Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915
Paperback. Grasping Gallipoli Num Pages: 364 pages, 35 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 570.
The failure of the Gallipoli campaign was instantly blamed on a great untruth - that the War Office was unprepared for Dardanelles operations and gave Sir Ian Hamilton little in the way of maps and terrain intelligence. This myth is repeated by current historians. The Dardanelles Commission became a battleground of accusation and counter-accusation. This book, incorporating much previously unpublished material, demonstrates that geographical intelligence preparations had indeed been made by the War Office and the Admiralty for decades. They had collected a huge amount of terrain information, maps and charts covering the topography and defences, and knew a ... Read more
The failure of the Gallipoli campaign was instantly blamed on a great untruth - that the War Office was unprepared for Dardanelles operations and gave Sir Ian Hamilton little in the way of maps and terrain intelligence. This myth is repeated by current historians. The Dardanelles Commission became a battleground of accusation and counter-accusation. This book, incorporating much previously unpublished material, demonstrates that geographical intelligence preparations had indeed been made by the War Office and the Admiralty for decades. They had collected a huge amount of terrain information, maps and charts covering the topography and defences, and knew a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750962261
SKU
V9780750962261
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99-10
About Peter Chasseaud
Dr. Peter Chasseaud is the world's greatest expert on the mapping of World War I. He is the author of Mapping the First World War, Rats Alley: Trench Names of the Western Front, and several other titles. Peter Doyle is a geologist who is expert in the role of terrain in battle. He is the author of many books, including ... Read more
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