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Gallipoli Revisited: An Operational Assessment of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign - DTIC document
Travers, T. "The Ottoman Crisis of May 1915 at Gallipoli." War in History 8, no. 1 (January 2001): 72-86. (EBSCO)

Gallipoli 1915 by Tim Travers
Call Number: D568.3 .T73 2004
ISBN: 9780752429724
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Why was the Allied naval assault of February 1915 so unsuccessful? Did the Ottoman Turks have knowledge of the Allied landings of April 25, 1915? And did Sir Ian Hamilton, the overall commander of the Allied forces at Gallipoli, really make a mistake in his intervention at Suvla? These questions and the key issue of why the Ottoman Turks won the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, or why the Allies lost it, have never been satisfactorily answered. This new history of the Gallipoli campaign finally answers these questions, while also telling the story of what actually happened through the voices of British, Australian, and Turkish soldiers.

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Amphibious landing, the largest in history until World War II. The Gallipoli campaign was an Allied operation in 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula of European Turkey in the battle between the Allies and Turkish forces for the control of the Dardanelles Straits.

The Gallipoli campaign proved an expensive enterprise. A half million men had deployed to the Dardanelles, of whom about 252,000 became casualties. Turkish records are incomplete, but their official casualty record of 151,309 is undoubtedly far too low. Regardless, the way to Constantinople was still blocked and would remain so for the rest of the war. Russia was cut off from easy access to its Allies, and the ensuring economic chaos helped bring on the Russian Revolution of 1917. Instead of morale-building victory, the Gallipoli campaign had brought the British and French a costly failure.

taken from - Spencer C. Tucker et al., eds., World War I Encyclopedia: Volume II: E-L (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005): 461-464.