“In January 1915, Imperial Russia appealed to her allies for help against the seemingly invincible Central Powers. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, overrode the advice of his First Sea Lord, the aged Fisher (‘Damn the Dardanelles-they will be our grave!’), and persuaded the Cabinet, unversed in war, to sanction a naval expedition to force its way to Constantinople. It was to eliminate Turkey from the war and thus sustain Russia’s war effort.

 

The campaign, which veered from the brink of victory to final resounding defeat, was one of the most interesting in modern history. It saw the end of an era in Turkey, Australia and New Zealand as well as in Britain”
 

Excerpt from the book of Gallipoli by Michael Hickey

 

'Colonel Michael Hickey fought in Korea after graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and subsequently saw active service as a light aircraft and helicopter pilot in Korea, Malaya, in the Suez campaign of 1956, in East Africa and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Army Staff College, the Joint Services Staff College, the Royal Naval War College Greenwich, and was an instructor to the Army Staff Course at the Royal Military College of Science.  He is a graduate of the University of London, having been a Defence Fellow of Kings College and is the author of numerous books on military subjects including 'Gallipoli', 'The Unforgettable Army (Slim and the 14th Army in Burma') and 'The Korean War 1950-53' (which earned him the Westminster medal for Military literature in 2000).A committee member of the Gallipoli Association, he has visited the Gallipoli and Dardanelles battlefields more than 20 times and has an unrivalled knowledge of the topography of the area, and of modern Turkish history.   

     
 

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