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Prelude to the First World War - The Balkan Wars 1912-1913 (Hardcover)
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Prelude to the First World War - The Balkan Wars 1912-1913 (Hardcover)
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The fuse to the First World War was lit in the Balkans where
simmering hatreds exploded into violence. Like a string of
firecrackers, these hatreds had been fuelled by attacks on the
Turkish Ottoman Empire in the previous few years. From 1911-1912,
Italy seized Libya. In 1912, the Balkan states united to drive
Turkey out of Europe in the First Balkans War, and in the following
year in the Second Balkans War, turned on each other in a division
of the spoils which allowed Turkey to retain a foothold in Europe.
This was a war of land campaigns, sea battles and amphibious
operations in which the new military technology was first used.
Submarine and aircraft attacked ships, aircraft made reconnaissance
flights and bombed troops while even electronic warfare was used.
It also saw mirror images of the events in the First World War;
Bulgarians driven from Salonika where an Allied army would later be
contained and Turkish troops held back in the Dardanelles, their
guns driving off a naval task force. These now forgotten wars were
the overture to the First World War and yet they have overtones a
century later.The First World War saw echoes of these campaigns in
Salonika and especially in the Dardanelles, while the ethnic
tensions would erupt into further bloodshed after the Cold War
ended as Yugoslavia collapsed during the 1990s.
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