![]() Churchill hoped it would open a back door to attack the Central Powers and save the troops on the Western Front who were “chewing barbed wire.” Hart’s book offers only a cursory examination of the reasons for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaign in 1915: to capture Constantinople, take pressure off the Russian army and encourage other Balkan states to join the Allies or at least not side with Germany. His true wilderness was in the 1930s, mainly the result of his opposition to the India Bill, not the Dardanelles campaign. ![]() What? Churchill was back in the Cabinet as Minister of Munitions within two years of Gallipoli. The setback would have ended the career of a lesser man even he had to spend ten years in the political wilderness.” It was a lunacy that never could have succeeded….Churchill pushed his luck once too often and ended up justly vilified for the dreadful consequences of his strategic incompetence. The author, a historian at the Imperial War Museum, eaves the reader with no confusion over his stance in the first words of his preface: “Gallipoli. Reardon is Vice-Chairman and Recording Secretary of ICS, Canada. Edinburgh Scotland, 5-7 October 2023 More ![]() ![]() ![]() Join us for the 40th International Churchill Conference. ![]()
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