Churchill in WWI

The first chapter of Nigel Hamilton's book, The Mantle of Command, states that the Lusitania was an “ill-fated American liner.” He leaves the impression that Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, had played a role in the sinking in order to get the United States into World War I.

Churchill usu­ally comes in for (and deserves) some of the blame for the tragic failure of the Gallipoli Peninsula landings, but rarely does every­body “get it right.” Churchill's reasons for the attack and his subsequent exoneration from blame casts a different light on the Dardanelles-Galipoli affair.