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Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Glossary of Terms; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 -- A Brief History of the Dardanelles; The Dardanelles -- early incursions and defence; Admiral Duckworth and the Dardanelles Operation 1807; Admiral Hornby 1878; The end of the nineteenth century; Notes; CHAPTER 2 -- Germany and the Ottoman Empire; Early military reform of the Ottoman Empire; The Italian-Turkish War; The First Balkan War; The Ottoman-German Alliance; The Goeben and Breslau; Krupp guns and the Ottoman Empire; Coastal guns. |
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CHAPTER 3 -- The Fortification and other DefencesThe entrance forts; The Narrows forts; The condition of the Dardanelles defences in 1914; Fortifications between the entrance and the Narrows; The minefield; The Turkish Navy; Shore-launched torpedoes; CHAPTER 4 -- Ships versus Forts; British intelligence and the Dardanelles; 3 November 1914; The big gun competition: Armstrong, Vickers and Krupp; CHAPTER 5 -- The Reduction of the Fortifications -- The Beginning; 19 February 1915; 25 February 1915; 26 February 1915; March 1915; Minesweeping; Landing parties; Notes. |
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CHAPTER 6 -- The Reduction of the Fortifications -- The Hammer and the AnvilGerman and Turkish gun crews; 18 March 1915; CHAPTER 7 -- 'They are Gone'; Could the Royal Navy have succeeded with a second assault?; The loss of the Bouvet; CHAPTER 8 -- Submarines, Destroyers and More Guns; Submarine actions in the Dardanelles; Destroyer actions in the Dardanelles; The 'human shield' defence; The redeployment of the coastal guns; The Battle of Imbros; CHAPTER 9 -- The Chanak Crisis and After; The British defence of Canakkale; The Republic of Turkey; The loss of submarines Atilay and Dumlupinar. |
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CHAPTER 10 -- The Fortifications TodayHow to get to the Dardanelles; Fortifications that cannot be visited; Fortifications and gun batteries that can be easily found on the Gallipoli peninsula; Aegean coastal gun batteries; Fortifications and guns batteries that can be easily found on the Asian coast; Istanbul; APPENDIX 1 -- Krupp Coastal Defence Guns Purchased by Ottoman Turkey; APPENDIX 2 -- Krupp Coastal Defence Gun Locations on the Dardanelles; APPENDIX 3 -- Dardanelles Gun Batteries -- 18 March 1915; APPENDIX 4a -- Dardanelles Minefield up to 18 March 1915. |
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APPENDIX 4b -- Dardanelles Minefield and Anti-Submarine Nets from 28 March to December 1915APPENDIX 5 -- Extracts from the Foreign Committee Paper (No. 93) March 1886; APPENDIX 6 -- British and French Battleships used in the Dardanelles Campaign up to 18 March 1915; APPENDIX 7 -- The Power of the Guns; APPENDIX 8 -- The Director Fire Control System; APPENDIX 9 -- Shells, Fillings, Fuses and Charges; Bibliography; Index. |
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The Straits of Dardanelles that separates Europe and Asia Anatolia, were fortified in the 15th century with massive bronze bombards and history has proved that unwelcome ships have to run a formidable gauntlet. On 18 March 1915, a powerful fleet of British and French warships attempted to overwhelm the shore defenses of the Dardanelles to allow minesweepers to clear the Straits. The attack failed at huge cost; three ships sunk and three more seriously damaged. By bringing together many threads of information, including extracts from British intelligence sources that had previously determined tha. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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World War (1914-1918) |
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1914-1918 |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula.
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Military campaigns. |
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Dardanelles Strait (Turkey) -- History, Military.
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Black Sea -- Dardanelles Strait. |
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Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula. |
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Electronic books. |
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Military history.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781783469420 : $12.99 |
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1783469420 : $12.99 |
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