Gallipoli 1915 by Tim Travers

[Jonathan Saunders]

I am just about to start Tim Travers book on Gallipoli - the back of the book gets a very big thumbs up from Sheffield, Brown etc - and my primary reason for putting this top of the Gallipoli pile of books to read, is the constant references to the use of Turkish archives I have found in other reviews.

Have you read it and what was your opinion on the quality of Travers research?

[paul guthrie]

It's absolutely outstanding and he got some really good information from Turkish archives, for instance killing the opinion that 1 more try to force straits with navy would have worked cause the forts were short of ammo - they had plenty.

[Jonathan Saunders]

Thanks Paul, by coincidence I have just read as far as the availability of the Turkish munitions for 19 March - was news to me and I will have to readjust my view on this. (Did not look at Travers source for this ... was just musing whether this could have been the Turks painting a much better picture after the event).

Still, impresssed so far.