Word: misstrategist
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...disastrous World War 1 Gallipoli invasion, Earl Attlee, 74, onetime Laborite Prime Minister and himself a British army survivor of Gallipoli, paid more than tribute to a former political adversary, ex-Tory Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, 82. Churchill is generally still held accountable by historians as the master misstrategist behind the Gallipoli debacle (205,000 British casualties). Attlee was determined to vindicate onetime First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill: "If we had had Sir Winston instead of [Prime Minister] Earl Asquith and [Prime Minister David] Lloyd George in the 1914-18 war, he would have saved a million lives...
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