Full Description
The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, revealing extensive uncovered ground, misunderstandings and even complete neglect in the historiography.
To achieve its aim, this volume brings together well-known military historians who use their unique expertise to approach the Gallipoli Campaign from the perspectives of eight combatant nations. Drawing inspiration from Keegan's famous book about the Normandy Campaign, they highlight the presence of these different nations on the Gallipoli Peninsula and the need to examine them comparatively within the context, especially the case of the Germans, French, Indians and Irish, whose roles in the campaign have been largely overshadowed. Each chapter offers missing insights and reappraisals of the published literature on the Gallipoli campaign, while seeking to avoid the oversimplification, repetition and nationalistic clichés that still haunt new works.
This book is intended for scholars, students and general readers interested in World War I and military history more broadly.
Contents
1. The Strategic Consequences of the Gallipoli Campaign 2. 'The country is a mass of rocky ridges': Terrain and Trench Warfare at Gallipoli, 1915 3. The British Historiography of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli 4. The French on Gallipoli 5. 'An Abominable Labyrinth': The French View of Gallipoli 6. German Historiography on the Dardanelles Battle: Past, Present, Future 7. An Irrefutable and Utter Failure: Confronting Australian Myths of August at Gallipoli 8. New Zealand and the Gallipoli Campaign: Some Reflections on the Recent Research 9. The Irish on Gallipoli: A Forgotten Army 10. The Indian Army on Gallipoli 11. Supplying the Indian Army at Gallipoli: February 1915-January 1916 12. The Gallipoli Campaign and the Foundation of Turkish Official Military History Writing
