War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War

by Nicholas A Lambert and Nicholas A. Lambert

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.

In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world. After the Navy failed to breach Turkish defenses, British and allied ground forces stormed the Gallipoli peninsula but were unable to move off
the beaches. Over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197545203
• ISBN13: 9780197545201
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.5"