The defence of the Dardanelles : from bombards to battleships için kapak resmi
Başlık:
The defence of the Dardanelles : from bombards to battleships
Yazar:
Forrest, Michael. author
ISBN:
9781781590522

9781783469420
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406 pages ; 24 cm.
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Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Glossary of Terms -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 - A Brief History of the Dardanelles -- The Dardanelles - early incursions and defence -- Admiral Duckworth and the Dardanelles Operation 1807 -- Admiral Hornby 1878 -- The end of the nineteenth century -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2 - Germany and the Ottoman Empire -- Early military reform of the Ottoman Empire -- The Italian-Turkish War -- The First Balkan War -- The Ottoman-German Alliance -- The Goeben and Breslau -- Krupp guns and the Ottoman Empire -- Coastal guns -- CHAPTER 3 - The Fortification and other Defences -- The entrance forts -- The Narrows forts -- The condition of the Dardanelles defences in 1914 -- Fortifications between the entrance and the Narrows -- The minefield -- The Turkish Navy -- Shore-launched torpedoes -- CHAPTER 4 - Ships versus Forts -- British intelligence and the Dardanelles -- 3 November 1914 -- The big gun competition: Armstrong, Vickers and Krupp -- CHAPTER 5 - The Reduction of the Fortifications - The Beginning -- 19 February 1915 -- 25 February 1915 -- 26 February 1915 -- March 1915 -- Minesweeping -- Landing parties -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6 - The Reduction of the Fortifications - The Hammer and the Anvil -- German and Turkish gun crews -- 18 March 1915 -- CHAPTER 7 - 'They are Gone' -- Could the Royal Navy have succeeded with a second assault? -- The loss of the Bouvet -- CHAPTER 8 - Submarines, Destroyers and More Guns -- Submarine actions in the Dardanelles -- Destroyer actions in the Dardanelles -- The 'human shield' defence -- The redeployment of the coastal guns -- The Battle of Imbros -- CHAPTER 9 - The Chanak Crisis and After -- The British defence of Canakkale -- The Republic of Turkey -- The loss of submarines Atilay and Dumlupinar.

CHAPTER 10 - The Fortifications Today -- How to get to the Dardanelles -- Fortifications that cannot be visited -- Fortifications and gun batteries that can be easily found on the Gallipoli peninsula -- Aegean coastal gun batteries -- Fortifications and guns batteries that can be easily found on the Asian coast -- Istanbul -- APPENDIX 1 - Krupp Coastal Defence Guns Purchased by Ottoman Turkey -- APPENDIX 2 - Krupp Coastal Defence Gun Locations on the Dardanelles -- APPENDIX 3 - Dardanelles Gun Batteries - 18 March 1915 -- APPENDIX 4a - Dardanelles Minefield up to 18 March 1915 -- APPENDIX 4b - Dardanelles Minefield and Anti-Submarine Nets from 28 March to December 1915 -- APPENDIX 5 - Extracts from the Foreign Committee Paper (No. 93) March 1886 -- APPENDIX 6 - British and French Battleships used in the Dardanelles Campaign up to 18 March 1915 -- APPENDIX 7 - The Power of the Guns -- APPENDIX 8 - The Director Fire Control System -- APPENDIX 9 - Shells, Fillings, Fuses and Charges -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
The Straits of Dardanelles that separates Europe and Asia Anatolia, were fortified in the 15th century with massive bronze bombards and history has proved that unwelcome ships have to run a formidable gauntlet.On 18 March 1915, a powerful fleet of British and French warships attempted to overwhelm the shore defenses of the Dardanelles to allow minesweepers to clear the Straits. The attack failed at huge cost; three ships sunk and three more seriously damaged.By bringing together many threads of information, including extracts from British intelligence sources that had previously determined that a naval attack alone would not succeed; this definitive work examines the flaws of Winston Churchill's strategy and identifies the inadequacies of pitting warships against shore fortifications. The Allied inability to control the Straits necessitated the disastrous Allied invasion of Gallipoli that cost the lives of some 250,000 men.From the 19th century, the Ottoman army and Turkey's coastal defenses relied entirely on the German firm of Krupp for guns. The author describes how this choice was a crucial element to the successful defense of the Dardanelles.Many of the fortifications on the Gallipoli peninsula and the Asian shore are still accessible. The Defense of the Dardanelles identifies those that can be visited, many of which still have wrecked guns emplaced.
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