eneral, vous aurez ete l'ouvrier de cette grande idee, et
l'annonciateur de cette aurore.
Gen. A. d'Amade.

Fronsac,
Gironde, France.
22 decembre, 1919.

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE v

LETTER FROM GENERAL D'AMADE TO THE AUTHOR x

CHAPTER

I. THE START 1

II. THE STRAITS 21

III. EGYPT 54

IV. CLEARING FOR ACTION 86

V. THE LANDING 127

VI. MAKING GOOD 159

VII. SHELLS 196

VIII. TWO CORPS OR AN ALLY? 219

IX. SUBMARINES 243

X. A DECISION AND THE PLAN 283

XI. BOMBS AND JOURNALISTS 314

XII. A VICTORY AND AFTER 343

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SIR ROGER KEYES, VICE-ADMIRAL DE ROBECK, SIR IAN HAMILTON, GENERAL
BRAITHWAITE _Frontispiece_

LIEUT.-GEN. SIR J.G. MAXWELL, G.C.B., K.C.M.G 58

REVIEW OF FRENCH TROOPS AT ALEXANDRIA 78

S.S. "RIVER CLYDE" 132

"W" BEACH 176

GENERAL D'AMADE 222

VIEW OF "V" BEACH, TAKEN FROM S.S. "RIVER CLYDE" 254

MEN BATHING AT HELLES 294

THE NARROWS FROM CHUNUK BAIR 330

GENERAL GOURAUD 346

MAPS

KEY MAP _Inside front cover_

CAPE HELLES AND THE SOUTHERN AREA _At end of volume_

GALLIPOLI DIARY

CHAPTER I

THE START

_In the train between Paris and Marseilles, 14th March, 1915._

Neither the Asquith banquet, nor the talk at the Admiralty that midn