Gallipoli: What Led to Britain's WW1 Disaster?
What does the price of wheat & global food supplies have to do with one of the greatest disasters in the history of warfare? Author Nicholas A Lambert talks us through the lead-up to the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign in 1915.
Dan Snow's History Hit · History Hit
August 12, 202153m 51s
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Show Notes
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 <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-world-wars/view" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Warfare</a> 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 <a href="www.oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197545201.001.0001/oso-9780197545201" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">now</a>.
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