Book contents
- Dublin’s Great Wars
- Dublin’s Great Wars
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Prelude: Dublin and Conflict, 1899–1914
- 2 Dublin Goes to War
- 3 Outbreak, 1914
- 4 Stalemate, 1915
- 5 Gallipoli: Helles
- 6 Gallipoli: Suvla Bay
- 7 Preparations
- 8 Rising
- 9 Falling
- 10 Consequences
- 11 The Other 1916
- 12 Success on the Somme
- 13 Snow and Sand
- 14 Attrition: 1916–17
- 15 Learning
- 16 Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
- 17 War of Independence
- 18 Crossovers
- 19 Civil War
- 20 Peace
- 21 Commemoration
- Conclusion: Three Men
- Book part
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Gallipoli: Helles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2018
- Dublin’s Great Wars
- Dublin’s Great Wars
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Prelude: Dublin and Conflict, 1899–1914
- 2 Dublin Goes to War
- 3 Outbreak, 1914
- 4 Stalemate, 1915
- 5 Gallipoli: Helles
- 6 Gallipoli: Suvla Bay
- 7 Preparations
- 8 Rising
- 9 Falling
- 10 Consequences
- 11 The Other 1916
- 12 Success on the Somme
- 13 Snow and Sand
- 14 Attrition: 1916–17
- 15 Learning
- 16 Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
- 17 War of Independence
- 18 Crossovers
- 19 Civil War
- 20 Peace
- 21 Commemoration
- Conclusion: Three Men
- Book part
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Revisionist historians have challenged the popular view of the war as one of futile slaughter. The Somme was, for William Philpott, a ‘Bloody Victory’.2 While A. J. P. Taylor called Passchendaele ‘the blindest slaughter of a blind war’, Gary Sheffield argues that Taylor’s ‘blanket condemnation of the campaign … is a travesty of the truth’.3 But no such case is made for Gallipoli, or more formally the ‘Dardanelles’ campaign. Its aim was extremely laudable: the naval destruction of Turkey’s defences along the Dardanelles passage at the entrance of the Sea of Marmara which led to Constantinople. Through a mix of land and sea power, the Turkish capital would be seized and the Central Powers would lose a key ally. The idea was the brainchild of Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty.
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- Dublin's Great WarsThe First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution, pp. 85 - 97Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018