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Beschreibung
The story of the highly controversial First World War campaign that nearly destroyed Churchill's reputation for good and of his decades-long battle to set the record straight - a battle which ultimately helped clear the way for Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in Britain's 'darkest hour'.
The story of the highly controversial First World War campaign that nearly destroyed Churchill's reputation for good and of his decades-long battle to set the record straight - a battle which ultimately helped clear the way for Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in Britain's 'darkest hour'.
Über den Autor
Christopher M. Bell is Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has published widely on twentieth-century naval history, and is the author of The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars (2000) and Churchill and Sea Power (2012), and co-editor of At the Crossroads between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference of 1930 (2014) and Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (2003).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Winston Churchill and the Dardanelles: A Riddle Wrapped in Myths Inside a Legend

  • 1: Stalemate and Frustration: The First Months of War

  • 2: The Origins of the Naval Offensive

  • 3: 'A Great Experiment': The Naval Plan Approved

  • 4: 'I Will Find the Men': The Plan Remade

  • 5: 'Groping Round Without a plan'

  • 6: From the Dardanelles to Gallipoli

  • 7: Jacky Fisher's Crisis

  • 8: The Duchy of Lancaster Goes to War!

  • 9: Exile

  • 10: The Dardanelles Commission I: The Preliminaries

  • 11: The Dardanelles Commission II: The Naval Staff under Scrutiny

  • 12: The Dardanelles Commission III: An Instalment of Fair Play

  • 13: The Cabinet Minister as Censor: The Official Histories

  • 14: The Battle of the Memoirs

  • 15: From Millstone to Myth: 'The Great Movement of Opinion'

  • Conclusion: What about the Dardanelles?

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198702559
ISBN-10: 0198702558
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bell
Hersteller: ACADEMIC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Bell
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2020
Gewicht: 0,574 kg
Artikel-ID: 118288820