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THE BALKAN WARS

1912-1913, THIRD EDITION

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JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN

The Balkan Wars

1912-1913, Third Edition

From a 1916 edition.

ISBN 978-1-775411-66-6

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Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Preface to the Second Edition

The interest in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 has

exceeded the expectations of the publishers of this

volume. The first edition, which was published five

months ago, is already exhausted and a second is now

called for. Meanwhile there has broken out and is now in

progress a war which is generally regarded as the

greatest of all time—a war already involving five of the

six Great Powers and three of the smaller nations of

Europe as well as Japan and Turkey and likely at any

time to embroil other countries in Europe, Asia, and

Africa, which are already embraced in the area of

military operations.

This War of Many Nations had its origin in Balkan

situation. It began on July 28 with the declaration of the

Dual Monarchy to the effect that from that moment

Austria-Hungary was in a state of war with Servia. And

the fundamental reason for this declaration as given in

the note or ultimatum to Servia was the charge that the

Schurman, Jacob Gould - The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, 3d ed.pdf