The first book about the Dardanelles disaster of 1915, based not only on British, French, German, Russian, but also on Turkish sources. Everything about Churchill’s bloodiest and most shameful defeat and the failure of the first strategic landing in history. From his youth, prone to dangerous adventures and completely devoid of military talent, Sir Winston in March 1915 set out to knock Turkey out of the war with one blow, breaking through the Dardanelles to Constantinople. and forcing the Ottomans to capitulate. But the disgustingly planned and incompetently carried out operation ended in tragedy - in just a day, the Anglo-French fleet lost three battleships to mines and under fire from coastal batteries, several more ships received serious damage and were saved only by a miracle. An even worse massacre turned out to be the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula, where the offensive also floundered, and the Allies put 150 thousand people in a positional meat grinder with zero results. This failure was all the more humiliating because in the landing zone the Turks did not even have machine guns, but mowed down the attackers with multi-barreled grapeshots, which had long been withdrawn from service in other armies. The last straw was the death of three more battleships, sunk by a German submarine and a Turkish destroyer, and the failure of the second landing in Suvla Bay, after which it was decided to evacuate the Gallipoli bridgeheads. This book restores all the circumstances of the largest military disaster in British history and the most shameful fiasco in Churchill’s career, after which he was forced to resign from the post of First Lord of the Admiralty (Secretary of the Navy). This collector's edition is printed on premium quality coated paper and illustrated with hundreds of rare maps, charts and photographs.