Generally conceded to be doomed from the outset by the most recent historiography, the Gallipoli campaign still arouses heated controversy. In a new compendium of original research by an impressive array of established and up-and-coming scholars, Gallipoli: The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1915-16 explores a wide variety of aspects of the Allied military effort to force a passage through the Dardanelles straits and eliminate Ottoman Turkey from its Central Powers alliance. Contributors & topics include: Phylomena Badsey: Hospital ships; John Bourne: Staffordshire Regiment; Stephen Chambers: POWs; Alexandra Churchill: The Evacuation; Jeff Cleverly: Suvla Bay; Rhys Crawley: Royal Navy; Brian Curragh: 10th Irish Division; Peter Doyle: Terrain; Katherine Swinfen Eady: Experiences of a 29th Division Staff Officer; Mel Hampton: First Battle of Krithia; Peter Hart: Royal Naval Division; Simon House: Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient; Gavin Hughes: Irish Regiments; James Peter Hurst: ANZAC Landing; Rob Langham: Artillery; Michael LoCicero: Krithia Nullah winter 1915; Ross Mahoney: Aviation/Airpower; Linda Parker: Chaplains; Simon Peaple: Grand Strategy; Chris Pugsley: New Zealanders; Chris Roberts: Australian Brigade Command; John Sneddon: Ordnance and Supply; Rob Stevenson: 1st Australian Division; Rob Thompson: Logistics; Tom Williams: Territorials at Suvla Bay; John Dixon & Richard Wood: Tunnellers.

pt. I The MEF in Battle -- 1. Geopolitics and the Dardanelles: Poor Collective Decision-making / Simon Peaple -- 2. Into the Firing Line: A Reappraisal of the Battle at Anzac, 25 April 1915 / James Hurst -- 3. The Lowest Point: The 2nd Australian Brigade and the Second Battle of Krithia, 6-8 May 1915 / Meleah Hampton -- 4. A Failure Inevitable? Command and Staff Work in Planning tor the August Offensive and the landing of IX Corps at Suvla Bay / Jeff Cleverly -- 5. The Last Offensive; Krithia Nullah, November-December 1915 / Michael LoCicero -- 6. The Decision to Evacuate the Gallipoli Peninsula / Alexandra Churchill -- pt. II Command and Control -- 7. Shaping Operations: General Headquarters and the Gallipoli Campaign / Rhys Crawley -- 8. The French Dardanelles Campaign 1915-16 / Simon House -- 9. A Strange Affair: The Royal Naval Division at Gallipoli / Peter Hart -- 10. Gallipoli Staff Officer: Captain Harold Mynors Farmar CMG DSO / Katherine Swinfen Eady -- 11. Crisis in Command: Senior Leadership in the 1st Australian Division at the Gallipoli Landings / Robert Stevenson -- 12. Brigade Command: The ANZAC Experience / Chris Roberts -- 13. Fighting at Anzac: A New Zealand Perspective / Christopher Pugsley -- 14. Bright's Disease and "Blooding the Pups:" the Hunter-Weston - Egerton Feud, June-July 1915 / David Raw -- 15. The Valour of Ignorance: The Experience of the 53rd and 54th Territorial Divisions at Suvla Bay / Tom Williams -- 16. "These Brave Irishmen": Lieutenant-General Bryan Mahon and 10th (Irish) Division at Gallipoli / Brian Curragh -- 17. "Just taking back the bit of land some silly ass had ordered to be returned to the Turk": Irish Regiments and the Gallipoli Landings, April-August 1915 / Gavin Hughes -- 18. A New Army Battalion at Gallipoli: The 7th Battalion The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire) Regiment / J. M. Bourne -- pt. III Support, Enablers and Constraints -- 19. "All this seemed full of promise": British Air Power and the Gallipoli campaign / Ross Mahoney -- 20. Care-giving and Naval Nurses at Gallipoli / Phylomena Badsey -- 21. "Each read each other's soul": British and ANZAC Chaplains at Gallipoli / Linda Parker -- 22. "We'd climb up the side of a signboard an' trust to the stick o' the paint" - The Gallipoli Experience of 1/4th Highland Mountain Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery / Rob Langham -- 23. Gallipoli: A Mining Overview / Ritchie Wood & John Dixon -- 24. Terrain and the Gallipoli Landings, 1915 / Peter Doyle -- 25. Guests of the Sultan: MEF Prisoners of War / Stephen Chambers.