Dardanelles-Gallipoli Centenary
Anzac Day, April 25th, marks the Centenary of the landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula, in the end a tragic failure, with heavy losses of British, Australian and New Zealand life. Churchill usually comes in for (and deserves) some of the blame, but rarely does everybody “get it right.” Such is a piece in Forbes: “Winston Churchill’s Terrible Leadership Failure.”
This piece gets several facts wrong and oversimplifies to the point of confusion. Churchill’s failure was over the Dardanelles naval attack of 18 March 1915; the landings on Gallipoli came in late April, after the naval attack had failed, and were not directed by him.…
