The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster - How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War

This book, based on comprehensive archival research in official and private papers, offers a new history of the infamous British disaster at Gallipoli in 1915. Contrary to all previous accounts, it shows that the campaign originated not in the search for an alternative to the Western Front, but in the need to lower the price of bread in Britain.