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.