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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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Prisoners of War
===Regimental and Corps Histories===
*''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : the Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base 1914-18'' by Sir Martin Farndale 1988. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01008145796
*''Collections and Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.''. Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. Field Coy, 107th. Author may also be listed as M J Rattray. Published 1918. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096078. "The first of 2 volumes recording the unit's services in Macedonia/Salonica".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191202113708/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/booksPDS.aspx?stockNo=57465&mv=2&sn=1 Tom Donovan Military Books]</ref>
:''Further Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.'' [in Macedonia, 1915-1918]. Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. Field Coy, 107th. Author may also be listed as "Sapper J Robertson and Former Lieutenant M J Rattray". Published 1920. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096079
*[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/index.html'' Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 1914-1923''] by Kenneth Steuer, written as a dissertation in 2008. Website of Gutenberg-e, a program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press.
**[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/archive/AppendixA/bulgaria/index.html Bulgarian Prison Camps]. Click on the map for a list of the camps in Bulgaria, being 1. Dobritch; 2. Eski-Djoumaja; 3. Harmanlu; 4. Haskovo; 5. Nish; 6. Philippolis (Plovdiv); 7. Rakhovo; 8. Rassgard; 9. Rustchak (Rousse); 10. Schmen; 11. Sliven; 12. Sofia; 13. Starazagora; 14. Tatar Bazarjik; 15. Varna
**[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/steuer/archive/AppendixA/Bulgarian%20Prison%20Camps/ "Appendix A: Prison Camps: Bulgaria"]. This alphabetical list, which contains information about location, appears to be from an earlier/different version of the above book, and does not appear to be included in the current version. Numbers on the map are probably the same as the list above.
:[http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=history_pubs "First World War Central Power Prison Camps"] by Kenneth Steuer 1-1-2013 ''History Faculty Publications'', Western Michigan University . Includes Bulgarian Prison Camps
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ibrarian.net/navon/paper/Prisoners_of_War_in_Bulgaria_during_the_First_War.pdf?paperid=21748674 Prisoners of War in Bulgaria during the First World War] A dissertation submitted as part of the Tripos Examination in the Faculty of History, Cambridge University, April 2012. No author is given on the paper but elsewhere the author is given as Rumen Cholakov. This is a link to a pdf download. Once downloaded, depending on your browser, you may need to look in your download folder.The camp at Plovdiv [Philippopolis, Philippoupolis] housed all British and most French prisoners from 1916 onwards.
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