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This young naval officer's diary provides a unique perspective on the Gallipoli catastrophe in World War One. Ideal for readers who have enjoyed the works of Peter Hart, Alan Moorehead and the diaries of Guy Warner and Tony Ditcham. The Dardanelles Campaign is famously one of Sir Winston Churchill's greatest failures, but what was it like to be there? When war broke out H. M. Denham was a sixteen-year-old cadet still at the naval college, but within weeks he found himself aboard HMS Agamemnon heading towards the Mediterranean to attack Ottoman forces located in the narrow Dardanelles Straits. Although prohibited from making official journals, Denham kept a secret diary of his time during thi...
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The 1842 Nautical Magazine reports on the First Opium War with China and includes health advice for Europeans in Africa.