the erratic jackie fisher famously wrote to churchill, damn the dardanelles. they will be our graves. churchill maintained the campaign was justified and had a reasonable chance of success. devoted wife later told his biographer, he thought he was finished. i thought he would die of grief. churchill's downfall. will a prime minister coalition with conservatives -- will a coalition with conservatives. that plus the ongoing failure in turkey doomed the first lord. news of7, he broke the the new government to churchill, asking, what are we to do for you? the answer was to make him chancellor, a cabinet position but one with no responsibility or power. churchill's cousin called it a bone on which there is little meat. .hurchill lasted six months for the rest of 1915, winston churchill dude and brooded -- stewed and brooded. he took up painting, which became a famous and lifelong pastime. he told his friend, there is more blood and paint upon the sands. hands.-- upon these he sat for a powerful portrait. in the national portrait gallery in london. looking for redem

last year, professor chris bell gave a fascinating presentation entitled "churchill and the dardanelles." he was kind enough to add a subtitle, it was not all churchill's fault. [laughter] by the way, chris will be publishing a full-length book on this subject in may. it will be well worth reading. i would like to begin this account of winston churchill and the first world war at the end, not the beginning, and on a personal note. at the 11th hour on the 11th day in the 11th month of 1918, the guns of war fell silent across europe. the greatest conflict the world had ever known was over, leaving 20 million dead in its wake. on that morning, a 12-year-old boy was playing in the street near his home in the middle class neighborhood of berlin. unlike the next world war, berlin had not been pulverized by aerial bombardment. its great monuments, palaces, homes and neighborhoods were intact. germany had not been conquered and on the western front, its army still stood on allied soil. in that fact lay the seeds of a horrible myth, the step in the back, which would hot german politics. the 12-y

damhe disaster unfolded, the dardanelles they will be our grave. churchill maintained the campaign was justified and had a reasonable chance of success. his devoted wife later told his biographer, he thought he was finished. i thought he would die of grief. may brought churchill's downfall. the liberal prime minister wove a coalition with conservatives. many distrusted churchill as a turncoat who crossed the aisle in 1904. that plus the ongoing failure in turkey doomed the first lord. he broke the news of the new government to churchill, asking, what are we to do for you? the answer was to make him chancellor, a cabinet position but one with no responsibility or power. churchill's cousin called it a bone on which there is little meat. churchill took the job. churchill lasted six months. for the rest of 1915, winston churchill stewed and brooded. happily, he took up painting, which became a famous and lifelong pastime. as a guilt haunted him, he told his friend, there is more blood and paint upon these hands. he sat for a powerful portrait. when chu

you may have heard about that last year 1915 with the dardanelles campaign and everything. that is the classic, we have got command of the sea, the enemy doesn't, we can project. we can implants the fight ashore byinfluence the fight ashore taking the easy backdoor, the soft underbelly of europe or the dardanelles and the bosporus. we find out how soft all of that is, don't we, at gallipoli. that leaves the classic war at sea. this continues to go on. let's finish up on the context piece. the first is this leads to an engagement off the dogger bank between the battle cruiser forces. the british car outnumber the germans, the germans have slow armored cruisers with the blucher. that is a pretty modern battleship. that is how they have made armored cruisers obsolete. armored cruisers get new life, heavy cruisers and report to by the way. the way.ld war ii by the germans learned there are key vulnerabilities they need to take care of. their damage control and design of the ship is pretty good, but they realized the rate of fire is not as important as making sure that terrorist