Churchill and the Dardanelles için kapak resmi
Başlık:
Churchill and the Dardanelles
Yazar:
Bell, Christopher M., author.
ISBN:
9780198702542
Basım Bilgisi:
First Edition.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xiv, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
İçerik:
Churchill and the Dardanelles: a riddle wrapped in myths inside a legend -- Stalemate and frustration the first months of war -- The origins of the Naval Offensive -- ‘A Great Experiment’: the Dardanelles plan approved -- ‘I will find the men’: the plan remade -- ‘Groping round without a plan’: the offensive stalls -- From the Dardanelles to Gallipoli -- Jacky Fisher’s crisis -- The Duchy of Lancaster goes to war! -- Exile -- The Dardanelles Commission I: the preliminaries -- The Dardanelles Commission II: the naval staff under scrutiny -- The Dardanelles Commission III: an instalment of fair play -- The cabinet minister as censor: the official histories -- The battle of the memoirs -- From millstone to myth: ‘the great movement of opinion’ -- Conclusion: What about the Dardanelles?
Özet:
The failure of the Allied fleet to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office (First Lord of the Admiralty) in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, Churchill has been both praised and condemned for his role in launching this highly controversial campaign. For some, the Dardanelles offensive was a brilliant concept that might have dramatically shortened the First World War. To many others, however, Churchill was a reckless amateur who drove his unwilling and misinformed colleagues into a venture that was doomed to fail. This book, based on exhaustive archival research, provides a detailed and authoritative account of the Gallipoli campaign's origins and execution, stripping away the layers of myth that have long surrounded these dramatic events, and showing that no simple verdict is either possible or fair. Naval historian Christopher M. Bell untangles Churchill's complicated relationship with the dynamic First Sea Lord, Admiral Jacky Fisher, and reveals for the first time the behind-the-scenes machinations that led to Churchill's removal from office, including Fisher's covert campaign to undermine support for the Dardanelles operation, and the leaks by figures in high places that fuelled a bitter press campaign to drive Churchill from power. Equal attention is also given to the perhaps even more important story of Churchill and the Dardanelles after 1915. As Bell shows, Churchill spent a good deal of time and effort in the following two decades trying to refute his critics and convince the wider public that the campaign had in fact nearly succeeded. These efforts were so successful that the legacy of the Dardanelles did not stand in the way of Churchill becoming Prime Minister in May 1940--Provided by publisher.
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