The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies of Battles and Leaders)

174 Pages·1997·8.23 MB·English

by  Fred R. van Hartesveldt

THE DARDANELLES
CAMPAIGN, 1915
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THE DARDANELLES
CAMPAIGN, 1915
Historiography and Annotated
Bibliography
Compiled by Fred R. van Hartesveldt
Bibliographies of Battles and Leaders, Number 21
Myron J. Smith, Jr., Series Adviser
Greenwood Press
Westport, Connecticut • London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
van Hartesveldt, Fred R.
The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915 : historiography and annotated
bibliography / Fred R. van Hartesveldt.
p. cm.—(Bibliographies of battles and leaders, ISSN
1056-7410 ; no. 21)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-313-29387-2 (alk. paper)
1. World War, 1914-1918—Campaigns—Turkey—Gallipoli Peninsula—
Historiography. 2. World War, 1914-1918—Campaigns—Turkey—
Gallipoli Peninsula—Bibliography. I. Title. II. Series.
D568.3.V26 1997
940.4'26—dc21 97-33142
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Copyright © 1997 by Fred R. van Hartesveldt
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-33142
ISBN: 0-313-29387-2
ISSN: 1056-7410
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
1. Introduction and Tactical Overview of the Campaign 1
2. Overviews, Archival Sources, and Periodicals 12
3. Politics and Strategy 18
4. Anzac 25
5. Conclusion: Who Was Responsible? 28
6. Annotated Bibliography 32
Index 144
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Acknowledgments
There are always many people who contribute to a book length manuscript.
Space prevents thanking them all, but it is necessary to acknowledge the most
important. The nature of this work requires unusual demands on librarians, and the
staffof the Hunt Memorial Library responded effectively to every one. The greatest
amount of work fell on the interlibrary loan specialist, Robbie Walton Robinson,
who found many an obscure work needed for the bibliography. Two friends, John
Hutcheson of Dalton College and Jerry Sweeney of South Dakota State University
read parts of the manuscript and made many valuable suggestions. Their generous
and knowledgeable aid resulted in many improvements, and so the flaws that remain
are clearly my own fault. Finally, my wife Mary Ann refused the usual role of long
suffering support and pitched in to help with many parts of the project. She made
useful comments, proofread, and indexed. She also encouraged more effectively
than anyone else.
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1
Introduction and Tactical Overview
of the Campaign
The passage of time has not slowed the production of books and articles about
World War I. The two World War I volumes so far published in the Battles and
Leaders series (of which the current volume will be a part), The Battle of Jutland
by Eugene L. Rasor and The Battles of the Somme, 1916 by Fred R. van
Hartesveldt, have together almost 1,400 entries, with relatively little overlap. A.J.P.
Taylor's Illustrated History of the First World War [No. 688], written more than
thirty years ago, has never been out of print. In the last three years several major
scholarly works about the war have been prominent in general-interest bookstores.
These include Lyn Macdonald's 1915: The Death of Innocence [No. 452], Martin
Gilbert's The First World War: A Complete History [No. 272], and Paul Halpern's
A Naval History of World War I [No. 306]. In that same time period, there were
two major studies of the campaign that is the subject of the bibliography that
follows: Nigel Steel and Peter Hart, Defeat at Gallipoli [No. 674] and Michael
Hickey, Gallipoli [No. 330].
Popular interest is also strong. In the decade following the war, the campaign
drew attention and comment [Nos. 342, 566], and such interest in the war and the
Dardanelles continued into the current period. The 1962 movie Lawrence of
Arabia was a blockbuster, and the B.B.C.'s twenty-six part series on World War I
in 1964 caused much discussion. Concerning the Dardanelles, there was a
successful Australian film, Gallipoli [68] starring Mel Gibson and directed by Peter
Weir in 1981 and a documentary Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore in 1988. Joan Baez's
1995 album, Ring Them Bells, includes Eric Bogle's song "And the Band Played
Waltzing Matilda," written in the early 1970s, lamenting the suffering of Australian
soldiers at Gallipoli. As Baez's performance makes clear, the agonies of eighty
years ago can still bring tears. It is also notable that April 25, the day of the first
landings on Gallipoli, is celebrated as Anzac Day in Australia. It is treated very
much like an independence day celebration and is an important element in
Australian [Nos. 173,217,258-61, 363-65, 392,401,414,424,464, 471,494, 599,