By the end of 1914, World War One has stagnated into an industrial age nightmare.\xa0 The British and French sat opposite the Germans in trenches running through France from the coast to the Alps.\xa0 Things weren\u2019t much different in the East where the early Russian advance had been defeated.\xa0 The British looked for options.\xa0 What could they do to alter the situation?\xa0 They looked at the Dardanelles Straits.\xa0 This narrow waterway connects the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea.\xa0 The Turks had mined the strait and fortified its coastline but if the British could land troops and their ships could force through the strait, they could threaten the Turkish capital.\xa0 So that\u2019s what they tried to do.\xa0 The Australian author Les Carlyon tells the story of what happened in \u201cGallipoli\u201d.