1st Edition

Eight Armies on the Gallipoli Peninsula

Edited By Mesut Uyar Copyright 2026
206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, revealing extensive uncovered ground, misunderstandings and even complete neglect in the historiography. To achieve its aim, this volume brings together well-known military historians who use their... Read more

1. The Strategic Consequences of the Gallipoli Campaign
Hew Strachan

2. ‘The country is a mass of rocky ridges’: Terrain and Trench Warfare at Gallipoli, 1915
Peter Doyle

3. The British Historiography of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli
Rob Johnson

4. The French on Gallipoli
Elizabeth Greenhalgh

5. ‘An Abominable Labyrinth’: The French View of Gallipoli
Michael S. Neiberg

6. German Historiography on the Dardanelles Battle: Past, Present, Future
Holger Afflerbach

7. An Irrefutable and Utter Failure: Confronting Australian Myths of August at Gallipoli
Rhys Crawley and Craig Stockings

8. New Zealand and the Gallipoli Campaign: Some Reflections on the Recent Research
Glyn Harper

9. The Irish on Gallipoli: A Forgotten Army
David Murphy

10. The Indian Army on Gallipoli
Peter Stanley

11. Supplying the Indian Army at Gallipoli: February 1915–January 1916
Kaushik Roy

12. The Gallipoli Campaign and the Foundation of Turkish Official Military History Writing
Mesut Uyar

Biography

Mesut Uyar is a Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkish History (2025), author of The Ottoman Army and the First World War (2021), and co-author of Phase Line Attila: The Amphibious Campaign for Cyprus, 1974 (2020), along with numerous other publications.