Status Updates From Churchill and the Dardanelles

“‘I am not going to embark upon any reproaches this afternoon’, Churchill told the House of Commons, as he launched into his reproach of First Sea Lord Fisher…” // lol

Do you remember the board game Clue? It was also turned into a movie. This book is *exactly* like it—a great whodunnit, sorting through notes and memos and meeting minutes trying to surface the sequence of events. Fun so far.

Churchill makes it back to the Cabinet - much to the chagrin of the Conservatives

Wilson outlines how Churchill had minimised the difficulty of the naval attack on the Dardanelles forts to the War Council.

After reneging on releasing documents relating to the Dardanelles to Parliament, Asquith agrees to Commissions of Inquiry on the Mesopotamia and Dardanelles disasters.

Early May 1915 - Churchill finally goes into damage control after being criticised in the press as the sole originator of the Dardanelles campaign and for overruling the objections of the Admiralty

Churchill fatefully announces to the War Cabinet that "he will take full responsibility" for the coming naval bombardment of the Dardanelles forts.

Plans advance for the naval attack on the Dardanelles, although the French are put out.

Great introduction setting out the historiography of this fascinating topic. The first chapter gives a good background of Churchill's activities in the first few months of the war.