Grasping Gallipoli

Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915

Peter Chasseaud, Peter Doyle (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

2015
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6226-1 (ISBN)

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The failure of the Gallipoli campaign was instantly blamed on a great untruth – that the War Office was unprepared for Dardanelles operations and gave Sir Ian Hamilton little in the way of maps and terrain intelligence. This myth is repeated by current historians. The Dardanelles Commission became a battleground of accusation and counter-accusation. This book, incorporating much previously unpublished material, demonstrates that geographical intelligence preparations had indeed been made by the War Office and the Admiralty for decades. They had collected a huge amount of terrain information, maps and charts covering the topography and defences, and knew a great deal about Greek plans to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula. At least one plan was Anglo-Greek!

Much of this material, which is here identified and evaluated, was handed over to Hamilton’s Staff. Additional material was obtained in theatre before the landings, T. E. Lawrence playing a part. Grasping Gallipolli, which is the first book to examine the intelligence and mapping side of the Dardanelles campaign, looks closely at its terrain, and describes the production and development of new operations maps, and clarifies whether the intelligence was properly processed and efficiently used. It also examines the use of aerial photos taken by the Royal Naval Air Service during the campaign, and charting, hydrographic and other intelligence work by the Royal Navy.

Dr PETER CHASSEAUD is the acknowledged expert on First World War survey and mapping, and an acclaimed military historian. He was a commissioner on the A19 (Ypres battlefield) project, and is involved in battlefield archaeology and research. In his long career, he has worked for TV and on the Naval and Military Press/Imperial War Museum/National Archives 1914–18 trench map CD and DVD projects, and has also published several books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Royal United Services Institute. PETER DOYLE specialises in the understanding of military terrain, with special reference to the two world wars. A member of the British Commission of Military History, and co-secretary of the Parliamentary All Party War Graves and Battlefield Heritage Group, he is the author of a number of works of military history.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.3.2015
Zusatzinfo	35 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	720 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7509-6226-7 / 0750962267
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-6226-1 / 9780750962261
Zustand	Neuware