Hello everyone I'm your host James Rogers and this is the history hit warfare podcast in this episode we're talking about the disaster that was the Gallipoli campaign that ultimately failed catastrophic assault on the Dardanell Strait in 1915 during the First World War.

But as you're here, early on in this episode, I found myself asking our guest the brilliant

historian Nicholas A Lambert why on earth he was talking about wheat, economics and food security so much what on earth did the price of wheat and global food supplies have to do with the catastrophic

failure at Gallipoli? Well, thankfully Nick is a patient man with a seemingly endless amount of

knowledge on Gallipoli and as he explained Britain had to secure the

dardanel straits to reopen food supplies to a hungry British people and to make

sure that the Britain could continue to access cheap wheat cheap food. It's all about the economics of food

security. I cannot emphasize enough how fascinating I found this history and

Nick's take on the political leaders in Britain who he calls the

warlords and their decision-making behind that disastrous campaign.

So here is Nicholas A Lambert on the Warlords and the Gallipoli disaster. Hi Nick thanks so much for coming on the History Hit Warfare podcast.

How are you doing today?

Hello, good morning, James.

I'm very well, thank you.

Thank you for inviting me.

We've been looking forward to this for quite some time.

Yes, me too.

Where are you speaking to us from in the world? I'm just outside of Philadelphia,

United States, so about two hours north of Washington and two hours south of New York.

Yeah, about two hours south of me right now. Have you been getting the same

torrential endless downpours of this grey summer? Well, torrential downpours of sun.

I mean, it's 90 plus out there. There's not much rain at least we keep

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