The Dardanelles Disaster: Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure - Tapa dura

[Praise for "The Dardanelle's Disaster: Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure"] 'General readers will find enlightening this extended demonstration of the contributions command can make to catastrophe' - Publishers Weekly. [Praise for "The Last Corsair: The Story of the Emden"] 'Carefully and vividly set out ... Mr van der Vat spins a rattling good yarn' - Economist. 'A first-class and most readable addition to naval literature which benefits from the very considerable amount of detailed research by the author' - Guardian. [Praise for "The Ship that Changed the World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914"] 'An engrossing narrative ... by far the best book on the extraordinary career of the Goeben' - The Times. [Praise for "The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919"] 'Readable and enjoyable ... Mr van der Vat has broken a lot of new ground in an important and hitherto neglected patch of history and has established himself as a first-rate storyteller in the process' - Economist. [Praise for "The Pacific Campaign: World War II: The US - Japanese Naval War, 1939-1945"] 'A classic narrative and analytic history. It belongs on the bookshelf of every American who contemplates the meaning of the greatest sea war in history' - New York Times.

The British Navy's failed attempt to capture Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia in 1915 marked a turning point of World War I. Acclaimed naval military historian Dan van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles not only prolonged the war for two years and brought Britain to the brink of starvation, but also led to the Russian Revolution and contributed to the rapid destabilization of the Middle East. With a narrative rich in human drama, "The Dardanelles Disaster" highlights the diplomatic clashes from Whitehall to the Hellespont, Berlin to Constantinople, and St Petersburg to the Bosporus. Van der Vat analyzes then-First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill's response to the obstacles he faced and describes the fateful actions of the Turkish, German, and British governments throughout the Gallipoli Campaign. With detailed analysis of the battle's events and never-before-published information on the German navy's mine laying operations, "The Dardanelles Disaster" tells a forgotten story from a fresh viewpoint, shedding light on one of World War I's most pivotal moments - and in particular on one avoidable and monumental blunder.