Indeed of the belligerent states in the Balkan Wars, only Serbia participated in the First World War from the outset ... since the Franco-German war of 1870-1. In short these years witnessed ...

World War One was one of the great turning points of ... But how and why did this crisis in the Balkans escalate into a bloody global conflagration? Professor Ferguson questions whether Britain ...

The situation began to change following the First Balkan War, when the Balkan League (Bulgaria ... patron among the Great Powers—preferably one that hated its treacherous former friends ...

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the ...

Their journeys take them through pine forests and snow-covered mountains, along railway tracks and roads that lead to a hoped ...