The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How globalized trade led Britain to its worst defeat of the First World War

2022/01/02 by Matthew S. Seligmann · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Historical and Architectural Studies #World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

paper · doi:10.1080/00253359.2022.2026601

openalex publication_date 2022/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

The declared aim of this book is to advance a new and explicitly revisionist analysis of the genesis of the Gallipoli campaign, the un-successful 1915 Allied assault, exclusively naval at first but...

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• I know that book but its arguments are controversial. I'd recommend reading some reviews on it. Matthew Seligmann's is really good! doi.org/10.1080/0025... This is another review: journals.sagepub. [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]

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