ASIN: B00DY6Q39E
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 108
In the new year of 1915, with the world locked in a terrible conflict, Winston Churchill conceived of a bold plan. Constantinople would be seized and Turkey knocked out of the war.The key was the Dardanelles.The British submarine E14 approached the portal of the Ottoman Empire, viewing the ominous darkness from its small conning tower, eight feet above the waves.If a submarine could manage to reach down the Dardanelles and into the Sea of Mamora it would block the Turks from using the route, potentially doing more to finish the war than any other single act. But it meant undertaking possibly the longest dive ever contemplated in a submarine. It also meant passing the wreckage of the submarines that had tried to pass that way in the days and weeks before: their dead buried on the beach, their survivors in captivity.The submarine’s captain, Lieutenant Commander Courtney Boyle, had a ...
