Battling over the Balkans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battling over the Balkans write by John R. Lampe. This book was released on 2020-09-10. Battling over the Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The tumultuous history of the Balkans has been subject to a plethora of conflicting interpretations, both local and external. In an attempt to help overcome the stereotypes that still pervade Balkan history, Battling over the Balkans concentrates on a set of five principal controversies from the precommunist period with which the region’s history and historiography must contend: the pre-1914 Ottoman and Eastern Christian Orthodox legacies; the post-1918 struggles for state-building; the range of European economic and cultural influences across the interwar period, as opposed to diplomatic or political intervention; the role of violence and paramilitary forces in challenging the interwar political regimes in the region; and the fate of ethnic minorities into and after World War II, particularly Jews, Muslims and Roma. In an attempt to give a voice to eminent local authors, the chapters provide samples of new regional scholarship exploring these contested issues—most of them translated into English for the first time—and are prefaced with historiographical overviews addressing the state of the debate on these specific controversies. These translations help bridge the language barriers that often separate scholarly traditions within Southeast Europe, as well as scholars in Southeast Europe and English-speaking academia. This volume will enable readers to identify common patterns and influences that characterize the writing of history in the region, and will stimulate new transnational and comparative approaches to the history of the Balkans.
Balkan Battles
Balkan Battles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Balkan Battles write by G. Irving Root. This book was released on 2010-04. Balkan Battles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Great War had begun in the Balkans, the almost inevitable result of decades of intrigue, assassination and fratricidal conflict among a host of relatively minor nationalistic groups. In four years of seesaw combat, several local nations were recruited by the warring alliances; three were completely overrun. When the final great offensives that would end the war began on all fronts, it was only fitting that the Balkans should be the first to crack and the enemy disintegration begun there. This is the story of the crossing of broad rivers, agonizing retreats through snowy mountains and struggles in steamy, malarial backwaters. Powerful naval forces bombarded scrubby sun-baked shores, preceding amphibious assaults of a generation before the more famous D Day. Fledgling air forces shot at each other in the skies over the dusty battlefields. And common to all war stories this is a tale of misery, starvation, plague, destruction, mistreatment and death. Unfortunately, it is a story which has never been adequately told compared to other theatres of the First World War. Here in text and maps is a chronicle of a sorely misunderstood struggle, a conflict which in many ways is still unresolved.
Fighting the Turk in the Balkans
Fighting the Turk in the Balkans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fighting the Turk in the Balkans write by Arthur Douglas Howden Smith. This book was released on 1908. Fighting the Turk in the Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Balkan Breakthrough
Balkan Breakthrough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Balkan Breakthrough write by Richard C. Hall. This book was released on 2010-05-03. Balkan Breakthrough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An important account of a very overlooked aspect of the Great War.” —Strategy Page With the transfer of German units to the western front in the spring of 1918, the position of the Central Powers on the Macedonian front worsened. Materiel became scarce and morale among the Bulgarian forces deteriorated. The Entente Command perceived in Macedonia an excellent opportunity to apply additional pressure to the Germans, who were already retreating on the western front. In September, Entente forces undertook an offensive directed primarily at Bulgarian defenses at Dobro Pole. Balkan Breakthrough tells the story of that battle and its consequences. Dobro Pole was the catalyst for the collapse of the Central Powers and the Entente victory in southeastern Europe―a defeat that helped persuade the German military leadership that the war was lost. While decisive in ending World War I in the region, the battle did not resolve the underlying national issues there. “[Hall’s] recreation of the morale crisis that eroded the fighting capability of the Bulgarian Army generally, and underlay its collapse at Dobro Pole and afterward, is a welcome addition to the history of a largely ignored front of the First World War.” —International History Review “Incredibly rich . . . well written, and thoroughly researched. For those unfamiliar with the critical role of the Balkans in World War I historiography, this will be an extremely useful introduction.” —Graydon Tunstall, University of South Florida
The Making of a Nation in the Balkans
The Making of a Nation in the Balkans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of a Nation in the Balkans write by ????? ????????. This book was released on 2004-01-01. The Making of a Nation in the Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The book contains a presentation and critical consideration of the ideas of historians on the major problems, processes, events, and personalities of the era of the Bulgarian (national) Revival. It is dominated by the effort to understand how the Bulgarian Revival has been conceived of and imagined while keeping a certain distance from the various views presented, whether critical, ironic, or simply that inherent in the presentation of another person's view."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
