Gallipoli 1915: Muddle & Myths?

This presentation uses sophisticated graphics, contemporary and present-day photographs to explain the strategic objectives, the military plan and the actual campaign. The speaker then analyses some of the major failings and considers how the campaign has influenced modern thinking in both Turkey and abroad.

George Sutherland is a former army officer, a former member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for World War Studies at Edinburgh University and author of ‘Full Circle, a history of the City of Edinburgh Universities' Officers Training Corps’.