The Perils of Amateur Strategy

This is a republication of a public domain book. It is written by a decorated career soldier, Lt. General Sir Gerald Ellison, who fought in South Africa, and helped enact reform in the British Army after the Boer War. He served in WW1, and was the Quarter-Master General of the Gallipoli Front. In this book he gives his recollections and research of the policy and personality debates that went into deciding the strategy of attack that caused the devastating, bloody, and ultimately pointless landings on Gallipoli. He writes with detail and command of the facts, about the inmost circle of British Imperial Grand Strategic decisionmaking. He ultimately blames "amateurs" like Winston Churchill, for making the wrong choices. We have included maps and footnotes, newspaper clippings, and an appendix with an article written by a Flag Officer who corroborates the narrative of Sir Ellison.