Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Road to Gallipoli 1
1 "A Day Which I Shall Not Forget": The Battle Is Joined 9
2 "The Results Were Disastrous": Forcing the Dardanelles 17
3 "Death on the Eve of Battle": The Preparations 27
4 "My God It's All Horrible": The Landings of April 25, 1915-Anzac 36
5 "This Place Was Littered with Dead from the Boats": The Landings of April 25, 1915-Helles 59
6 "Had We Gone Forward We Should Have Been Wiped Out": The Battles of April-Helles 107
7 "They Died like Gallant Officers and Gentlemen": The May Battles 131
8 "A Lot of Our Poor Fellows Were Drowned": The War at Sea 155
9 "We Had the Great Experience to Have a Glimpse of Hell": The June Battles 187
10 "There Was No One Left to Fire": Battles of August and the Final Offensives 224
11 "Not Actually All the King's Men": The Battles of July 12 and August 12 248
12 "And All Suffered Severely": The Great Storm, November 27-28, 1915 269
13 "We Have Lost the Game": Evacuation 281
Notes 301
Bibliography 311
Index 357