If you are looking for a book on the Dardanelles Campaign from the perspective of planning, strategy, errors and oversights...This is the one. The author also analyzes the German/Turkish side of the campaign. A great deal of time is spent in the book reviewing the inner workings of the British cabinet and planning committees. It is amazing how people of the caliber of Churchill. Balfour, Kitchner and Adm. Jackie Fisher could all attend the same meeting, yet leave with vastly different understandings of what happened and what was agreed upon. Scary; with tragic results.

The book does not delve into great detail of the battles or general campaign, but takes an overview. This is what I was looking for, so that was fine. One issue I had is that the author provides no maps to reference the events. I had to use my own research material (Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War is a good one) to understand what was happening where. A bit annoying. Otherwise the material presented was interesting and flowed with the timeline. Chapter 11 (out of 12) dealt with 'What Became of Them'. A nice touch explaining how the Dardenelles Disaster untimately affected the main characters. The final chapter deals with how the campaing and subsequest events in WWI affected Turkey and Middle East going forward.

Good book, well done. I have read some of Dan Van Der Vet's other books and enjoyed them as well. ( )