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The Dardanelles Disaster: Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure

Door Dan Van Der Vat

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#372508-XF40
Titel
The Dardanelles Disaster: Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure
Auteur
Vat, Dan Van Der
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
 New York, NY : Harry N. Abrams
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
1590202236
ISBN13
9781590202234
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blind stamped boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with (double page) photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty is the central figure in naval historian van Der Vat's (The Ship that Changed the World) account of a disaster that prolonged the Great War by two years and laid the groundwork for the collapse of the czarist and Ottoman empires. The plan to take the Dardanelles strait was Churchillian in its conception: the boldest strategic concept of WWI, designed to simultaneously outflank a deadlocked Western Front and open a supply route to Russia. Its promise was thwarted by incompetent executionbeginning with Churchill's insistence on the navy forcing the Dardanelles alone, without ground troop support. The Royal Navy's predictable inability to push its battleships past the guns and minefields defending the Dardanelles forts in March 1915 followed th... (Lees verder)e Allies' failure to intercept the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau before they reached Turkish waters and triggered the German-Ottoman alliance. An improvised land campaign undertaken with poorly trained troops whose senior commanders set unsurpassed standards of ineptitude ensued. General readers will find enlightening this extended demonstration of the contributions command can make to catastrophe. (July 14) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Pagina's
226
Conditie
Goed — Spine and top edge boards discoloured.
Prijs
€ 9,00

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