Balkan Breakthrough: The Battle of Dobro Pole 1918

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Notes Introduction 1. On Salonika see Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts (New York: Vintage , 2004). 2. “We” and “we” [sic]. Archive of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Hoover Institute , Stanford, California (hereafter referred to as Ferdinand), 53-7 1915, Dorbrovitch palais Sofia za General Gekoff [sic] (this was evidently a mistransliteration of Zhekov), 22/12 Dec. 1915, pp. 2–3. 1. Balkan Politics 1. Instityt za voenna istoriya pre Generalniya shtab na BNA, Srŭbskob ŭlgarskata voina 1885 sbornik dokumenti (Sofia: Voenno izdatelstvo, 1985), no. 16. Manafest na knyaz Aleksandŭr I Batenberg za priznavaneto sŭedinenieto, p. 26. 2. Karel Durman, Lost Illusions, Russian Policies towards Bulgaria in 1877– 1887 (Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Sweden, 1987), pp. 122–23. 3. Srŭbsko-bŭlgarskata voina, no. 242. Dogovor za mir mezhdu Knyzhestvo Bŭlgariya i Kralstvo Sŭrbiya, pp. 334–35. 4. F. R. Bridge, From Sadowa to Sarajevo: The Foreign Policy of Austria-Hungary 1866–1914 (London: Routledge, 1972), Document 24, Memorandum by Legationsrat Count von Rhemen, on the agreement made between Austria-Hungary and Russia concerning Bosnia and the Herzegovina (1873–1902), secret, January 1903, pp. 429–30. 178 6–20 notes to pages 5. Ferdinand 63-6 1916, Convention draft, 31 March 02 os; see also E. C. Helmreich and C. E. Black, “The Russo-Bulgarian Military Convention of 1902,” Journal of Modern History 9 (1937): 471–82. 6. On the genesis of this organization and uprising, see Duncan Perry, The Politics of Terror, The Macedonian Revolutionary Movements 1893–1903 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1988). 7. Bridge, pp. 265–66. 8. Ibid., p. 303. 9. Petŭr Goranov, “Tŭrnovskiyat akt ot 5 oktomvri 1908 g.,” in Obyavyavane na nezavisimostta na Bŭlgariya prez 1908 g., ed. Mito Isusov et al. (Sofia: Bŭlgarskata akadmeiya na naukite, 1989), p. 17. 10. The treaty is available in several Bulgarian and Serbian sources. For an English translation, see Ivan E. Geshov, The Balkan League (London: John Murray, 1915), pp. 112–17. 2. Balkan Wars 1. Richard C. Hall, The Balkan Wars 1912–1913: Prelude to the First World War (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 16–18. 2. Edward J. Erickson, Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans 1912–1913 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003), p. 59. 3. HellenicArmyGeneralStaff,AConciseHistoryoftheBalkanWars1912–1913 (Athens: Army History Directorate, 1998), p. 56. 4. Ivan Fichev, Balkansata voina 1912–1913 Prezhiveltsi, belezhki i dokumenti (Sofia: Dŭrzhavna pechatitsa, 1940), p. 231. 5. Alfred Rappaport, “Abaniens Werdegang,” Die Kriegsschuldfrage 5 (September 1927): 824. 6. Feroz Ahmad, The Young Turks (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969), p. 115. 7. Edouard Driault and Michel Lhéritier, Histoire diplomatique de la Grèce de 1821 à nos jours (Paris: Les Presses universitaires de France, 1926), p. 85. 8. Alex N. Dragnich, Serbia, Nikola Pašić and Yugoslavia (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers, 1974), p. 101. 9. E. C. Helmreich, The Diplomacy of the Balkan Wars 1912–1913 (New York: Russell and Russell), pp. 353–54. 10. Djordje Dj. Stankovich, Nikola Pashich i Jugoslovensko pitanje (Belgrade: Beogradski izdavachko-grafichkkizavod, 1985), vol. 1, p. 134. 179 notes to pages 20–38 11. Vladimir N. Kokovtsov, Out of My Past: The Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov (Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institute Press, 1935), p. 344. 12. Hall, Balkan Wars, p. 101. 13. For the peace agreement see Helmreich, p. 331. 14. Ministerstvo na voinna shtab na voiskata, voenno-istoricheski komisiya, Voinata mezhu Bŭlgariya i drugite balkanski dŭrzhavi prez 1913 god. (Sofia: Dŭrzhavna pechatitsa, 1941), vol. 1, p. 301. 15. Hellenic Army General Staff, pp. 236–43. 16. Simeon Radev, Konferentsiyata v Bukyresht i Bukureshtkiyat mir ot 1913 g. (Sofia: Tinapres, 1992), p. 67. 17. Hall, Balkan Wars, pp. 135–36. 18. N. Petsalis-Diomidis, Greece at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (Thessaloniki : Institute for Balkan Studies, 1978), pp. 31–32. 19. One historian pointed out that the situation in the summer of 1914 essentially duplicated that of the autumn of 1913. Helmreich, Balkan Wars, p. 426. 20. Petsalis-Diomidis, p. 34. 21. Georgi Markov, Golyamata voina i Bŭlgarskiyat klyuch za Evropeiskiya porgreb 1914–1916 g. (Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov, 1995), p. 50. 22. Andrej Mitrović, Serbia’s Great War 1914–1918 (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2007), p. 68. On the Serbian army, see J. Lyon, “‘A Peasant Mob’: The Serbian Army on the Eve of the Great War,” Journal of Military History 11 (1997...