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Gallipoli: What Led to Britain's WW1 Disaster?
Gallipoli: What Led to Britain's WW1 Disaster?
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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Aug 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
What does the price of wheat and global food supplies have to do with one of the greatest disasters in the history of warfare? Why was the decision made to send thousands of Allied troops in an attempt to free up the most heavily defended waterway in the world, the Dardanelles Straits? Historian and award-winning author Nicholas A Lambert joins James from our sibling podcast Warfare to talk us through the lead-up to Britain’s worst defeat in World War One, the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign in 1915. Find out why Prime Minister Henry Asquith and his senior advisers ordered the attacks in the first place and the failed operation’s legacy. Nicholas’ book, The War Lords and The Gallipoli Disaster, is available now.
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Released:
Aug 12, 2021
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Podcast episode
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