The Ottoman Empire - the great power which had ruled much of
southeastern Europe and the Middle East for over five centuries -
was manifestly in decline by 1912. Its decline had been gradual,
but by the early years of the twentieth century, the collapse of
the mighty world that had once stretched to the gates of Vienna
seemed increasingly inevitable. New Balkan states - Serbia,
Bulgaria, Montenegro and Greece - combined forces in the First
Balkan War (1912-1913) to bring about its downfall. But with
victory in their grasp, they were soon at one another's throats.
This book contains 83 selected and edited consular dispatches and
reports sent to the Foreign Office in London focusing on events in
Macedonia during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1914. They reveal the
extent of human suffering in the southern Balkan region in this
period and provide much insight into the realities of the Balkan
conflagration as it affected Macedonia and its environs. As a
first-hand, on-the-spot account, this is an invaluable source for
historians of twentieth-century Europe, the lead-up to World War I
and the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
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