Dominic Sandbrook

They decide, we will send a small expeditionary force to the European side of the Straits.

We will land troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula,

And it should be a very easy job to take the peninsula and to knock out all the Ottoman forts and batteries along that side of the coastline.

And then we can send our ships through.

It will be dead easy and nothing could possibly go wrong.

But could it?

We will find out after a break.

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Well, we will discover.

Churchill says to them, and I quote, there should be no difficulty in effecting a landing.

It doesn't occur to him that it will be at all tricky to land thousands of troops on enemy territory a long way from home, you know, what will effectively be an amphibious landing facing modern weaponry.