“The book needs an index.”
+ − Ath p1387 D 19 ’19 90w + Booklist 16:287 My ’20
“It cannot fail to be of the utmost value, as a document of the war, which will increase in value as the years pass.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 18 ’20 750w
“The story is told with the accuracy and straightforward impartiality that might be expected. After the accounts of each main event, whether success or failure, General Callwell adds a passage of ‘Comment,’ criticizing that action and pointing out where the causes of success or failure lay. To all military students and to all who, like myself, are intimately acquainted with the campaign, these comments will naturally be the most valuable and interesting parts of the volume.”
+ Nation [London] 26:648 F 7 ’20 1100w R of Rs 61:446 Ap ’20 100w
“General Callwell’s valuable study of the Dardanelles campaign, from a military standpoint, appears opportunely as the complement of the Dardanelles commission’s report on the conduct of the operations.”
+ Spec 123:729 N 29 ’19 1400w
“This is an excellent addition to the ‘Campaigns and their lessons’ series. The one criticism that we have to make of it is the inadequacy of the maps. There are certain phases of the campaign, notably the attacks at Anzac and Suvla in August, 1915, which it is impossible to follow clearly without large and clear maps.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p724 D 11 ’19 850w