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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some light tanning and marking due to age. Small corner missing from vol 1 cover page. First Two-Volume Edition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This message deserved very attentive study. It was clearly intended to raise the direct issue of the renewal of the naval attempt to force the Straits. In it Admiral de Robeck balanced the pros and cons on the whole with an emphasis on the latter. But at the same time he intimated unmistakably his readiness to make the attempt if the Admiralty gave the order. His telegram caused me much perturbation I was of course as always in favour of renewing the naval attack. But the situation at this moment was very different from what it had been in March and April and in pursuance of Admiral de Robeck’s decision of March 22 we were now following another line of policy. Three important events had taken place. First the Army had been landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula with a loss of nearly 20000 men. That army was it is true arrested but Lord Kitchener had told me that he intended to reinforce it with the whole Army Corps for which Sir Ian Hamilton had asked. (OS)