Hello everybody and welcome to Dan Snow's History Head. Every week we feature an episode

from our sister podcast where podcast network now folks were multiplying like a virus or

like the colonies of Greek or Phoenician city states. Perhaps that's a better metaphor

just at the moment. And this week we got the brilliant Warfare podcast which our Ministry

of History podcast overwhelmingly looking at World War One and World War Two although going

back into 18th, 19th centuries occasionally as well. On this one the presenter James is joined

by Nicholas Lambert, he's an expert in Glyphly. Now in 1915 the British and French thought

they'd found a way to knock one of their adversaries, one of the empires ranged against some out of

the war. The Ottoman Empire which I wrote to the British in particular spent most of the

90th century trying to keep alive, they decided to decapitate by sending a naval task force

through the larrows from the Eugien, past the ruins of Troy, past the Glyphly peninsula to the north

and into the sea of Marmaris and Istanbul itself bringing that great city, the seat of Ottoman power

under fire or certainly the threat of fire from great naval guns. It would open up an old season

route to Russia and our supplies to flow and it'll hopefully change the strategic balance against

the central powers. It was not to be Glyphly soon bogged down to another one of those very

recognisable, very futile, attritional, positional slogging matches for which the First World War

is infamous. As you'll hear on this podcast, Nicholas Lambert tells us why and how this all happened.

It's absolutely fascinating, please go and subscribe to Warfare wherever you get your pods

and if you want to go and subscribe to History Hit, we'd love that too, it's like a TV channel,

all the podcasts, they're hundreds of hours of podcasts, hundreds of hours of history,

documentaries like Netflix for history, we've just been nominated this week in the UK by broadcast

which is the kind of industry newspaper in the UK, we've been shortlisted in a prize for best

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