Dominic Sandbrook

And chief among those who do not is arguably the most celebrated man in all British history, Winston Churchill.

Well, we shall see.

We shall see.

I mean, among the men at Gallipoli, not just Winston Churchill, the man who carries the can for this disastrous operation, but Churchill's wartime deputy in the Second World War and successor as Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.

He was a captain.

Yes, dysentery.

Yes, dysentery.

The father of modern Turkey, the single best known Turkish person of the last couple of hundred years, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Father Turk.

He makes his name at Gallipoli.

Australia's greatest military hero, John Monash, he makes his name at Gallipoli.

But

All roads lead back to the man who came up with the entire scheme.

The wheeze.

Yes, the man who dominates 20th century British history.

And that man is, of course...

the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston S. Churchill, because it's his idea to turn the tide of the First World War by landing thousands of British, French, Australian, and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula, south of Constantinople.

And we will see how that works out.

It is exactly the Hellespont.

So let's start with Churchill himself.

At the turn of 1915, Winston Churchill is still only 40 years old.