Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "SMS Goeben - Guide 042 - Special (Human Voice)" video.

  1. Well ... that was a somewhat odd video ... but then ... Goeben had a somewhat odd career ... The impression I got from Robert K. Massie's "Castles of Steel" https://www.amazon.com/Castles-Steel-Britain-Germany-Winning/dp/0345408780/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Castles+of+Steel&qid=1591367387&sr=8-1  was that it was in fact the Goeben that, by attacking Russia, got the Ottomans in the war. Massie also made a remark about the influence having a German Battle Cruiser sitting a few hundred yards from their Capital may have had on the Ottomans. He goes on to make the point that doing just that was the whole point of the Gallipolli Campaign. Which ... had the Army been willing to participate before the Turks new what they were going to do - might have worked ... .
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