Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915-16 (Wolverhampton Military Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1911512188 ISBN 13: 9781911512189

Publisher: Helion and Company, 2018

Synopsis

Generally conceded to be doomed from the outset by the most recent historiography, the Gallipoli campaign still arouses heated controversy. In a new compendium of original research by an impressive array of established and up and coming scholars, Gallipoli: The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1915-16 explores various aspects of the Allied military effort to force a passage through the Dardanelles Straits and eliminate Ottoman Turkey from its Central Powers alliance.

Contributors and topics: Phylomena Badsey: Care Giving and Naval Nurses; John Bourne: 7th North Staffordshire Regiment; Stephen Chambers: MEF POWs; Alexandra Churchill: The Evacuation; Jeff Cleverly: Suvla Bay Landings; Rhys Crawley: Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Headquarters; Brian Curragh: Lieutenant-General Sir Bryan Mahon and 10th (Irish) Division; Peter Doyle: Gallipoli terrain; Katherine Swinfen Eady: 29th Division staff officer; Mel Hampton: First Battle of Krithia; Peter Hart: Royal Naval Division; Simon House: Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient; Gavin Hughes: Irish Regiments; James Peter Hurst: ANZAC landing; Rob Langham: Highland Mountain Brigade; Michael LoCicero: Krithia Nullah operations November-December 1915; Linda Parker: British and Australian Chaplains; Ross Mahoney: British airpower; Simon Peaple: Grand Strategy; Chris Pugsley: New Zealand military performance; David Raw: Hunter-Weston-Egerton feud; Chris Roberts: Australian Brigade Command;; Rob Stevenson: 1st Australian Division; Tom Williams: Territorial divisions at Suvla Bay and Ritchie Wood & John Dixon: British and Australian Tunnellers.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Stephen LoCicero is an independent scholar who earned his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2011. Previously employed as a contracted researcher by the National Archives and the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust, he is currently engaged in a wide-ranging number of academic and editorial activities including MA advisement for the University of Birmingham's respected MA programme, a visiting lectureship at the University of Wolverhampton and a commissioning editorship on behalf of Helion. His chapter on Brigadier-General Edward Bulfin appeared in Spencer Jones (ed) "Stemming the Tide: Officers and Leadership in the British Expeditionary Force 1914" in 2013.

Dr Rhys Crawley works at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, where he is writing the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. Prior to joining the Australian War Memorial Rhys was a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, where he convened the war studies seminar series and was co-author of the official histories of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and of Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations. The author of Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August Offensive (2014), he is a recognised expert on the Gallipoli campaign. His other books include The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO 1975-1989 (2016) and Intelligence and the Function of Government (2018).

Review:

"Why does Gallipoli continue to fascinate us? This excellent collection of specialist studies offers a compelling answer.” (Professor Peter Stanley, UNSW Canberra)

“In this impressive and important volume, the contributors provide a rich and nuanced picture of Gallipoli, that most controversial of campaigns. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the First World War.” (Professor Gary Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton)

“There is no sign that Gallipoli is diminishing in interest to the general public. This book, which brings to the campaign the perspectives of a new generation of scholars, is to be particularly welcomed. If you thought you knew everything there was to know about Gallipoli, buy this book and think again.” (Professor Robin Prior, author of Gallipoli: The End of the Myth (2010))

About this edition

• Publisher: Helion and Company
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1911512188
• ISBN 13: 9781911512189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 736
• Editor: LoCicero Michael, Crawley Rhys