Armies in the Balkans 1914-18

by Nigel Thomas, Dusan Babac, Darko Pavlovic (Illustrator)

Overview

A comprehensive overview of the troops involved in the First World War campaigns in Southeastern Europe.

It was events in the Balkans which sparked off the Great War, with the assassination of the Austrian heir Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, and the consequent invasion of Serbia by Austro-Hungarian armies on 2 August 1914. Nevertheless, the subsequent four-year war in that theatre is always overshadowed by the simultaneous campaigns on the Western Front.

For the first time this book offers a concise account of these complex campaigns, the organisation, orders of battle, and the uniforms and insignia of the armies involved: Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, Serbian, Montenegrin, Albanian, British, French, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780967356
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/20/2012
Series:	Men-at-Arms , #356
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Dr. Nigel Thomas is an accomplished linguist and military historian and is currently a Senior Lecturer in charge of the Business Language Unit at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle. His interests are 20th century military and civil uniformed organizations, with a special interest in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. He was recently awarded a PhD on the Eastern Enlargement of NATO.

Dusan Babac is a geological engineer, living in Belgrade. He has a strong interest in military history, particularly military uniforms, and is an acknowledged authority on Yugoslavia and Montenegro. He is an associate of the Military Museum and Serbian History Museum in Belgrade and has published widely in France, Japan, Russia and the states of former Yugoslavia. This is his first book for Osprey.

Darko Pavlovic is a Croatian artist living and working in Graz, Austria and Zagreb. He is an architect with a passion for military history and is now a full-time illustrator specializing in military subjects.
NIGEL THOMAS PhD is an accomplished linguist and military historian, formerly at Northumbria University, now a freelance military author, translator and military uniform consultant. His interests are 20th-century military and civil uniformed organizations, with a special interest in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. He has written widely for Osprey with titles such as MAA 518 Polish Legions 1914–19 and Elite 227 Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918–20. He was awarded a PhD for the study of the Eastern enlargement of NATO.

DUŠAN BABAC has an MSc in Hydrogeology from Belgrade University, Serbia; and is an associate of the Belgrade Military Museum and Serbian History Museum, and Director of the Royal Palace Foundation. Since 1995, he has published more than 20 books on military history and numerous articles, in Serbia, Slovenia, Russia, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. He has also acted as a consultant on many films and theatrical productions. With Nigel Thomas, he is the co-author of MAA 356, Armies in the Balkans 1914–18.
Darko Pavlovic was born in 1959 and currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. A trained architect, he now works as a full-time illustrator and writer, specializing in militaria. Darko has illustrated a number of books for Osprey including Men-at-Arms 282: 'Axis Forces in Yugoslavia 1941–45'.

Table of Contents

Introduction - the significance of the Balkan front
The Balkan campaigns - the Austro-Hungarian attack on Serbia; Franco-British landings in Salonika and subsequent operations; Rumanian declaration of war; Allied attack in Macedonia, and advance on Belgrade
Armies in the Balkans; orders of battle, organisation, deployment - Austro-Hungarian; German; Serbian; Montenegrin&Albanian; British; French; Italian; Russian; Bulgarian; Greek; Rumanian
The plates - uniforms, insignia&personal equipment