Gallipoli: Command Under Fire (Osprey General Military)

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Автор: Edward J. Erickson

Название: Gallipoli: Command Under Fire (Osprey General Military)

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Год: 2015

Формат: PDF (e-book)

Страниц: 289

Размер: 10 Mb

Язык: English

Unique among World War I campaigns, the fighting at Gallipoli brought together a modern amphibious assault and multi-national combined operations. It took place on a landscape littered with classical and romantic sites - just across the Dardanelles from the ruins of Homer's Troy. The campaign became, perhaps, the greatest ‘what if' of the war. The concept behind it was grand strategy of the highest order, had it been successful it might have led to conditions ending the war two years early on Allied terms. This could have avoided the bloodletting of 1916-18, saved Tsarist Russia from revolution and side stepped the disastrous Treaty of Versailles - in effect, altering the course of the entire 20th century.