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Kimberley Harper's avatar

In regards to Gallipoli, I remember reading something from Richard Poe about how the Gallipoli campaign was never meant to succeed. He quoted an Australian author, Harvey Broadbent, who hypothesised that the British intentionally allowed the Turks to win. It was the worst possible landing spot to launch an attack, they informed the enemy 5 months in advance, the most incompetent commanders were put in charge. Had the Allies succeeded, Britain would have been obliged to turn Constantinople over to the Russians as per a secret treaty of March 1915. The British definitely didn't want to do that, so they intentionally lost the battle.

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Matt

I love your work. I really do.

But the stone bridge Tavistock-Exeter in south England is NOT the location of the Tavistock Clinic or The Tavistock centre of behaviour change. These were located in central London (Bloomsbury / Fitzrovia).

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