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Historical books online
===Historical books online===
Under re-organisation
====Official histories, despatches, background etc====
*[https://archive.org/details/balkans011038mbp ''The Balkans: A Laboratory of History''] by William M Sloane, Professor of History, Columbia University, 1914. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924028563561 Revised and Enlarged edition 1920] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/roleofserbiabrie00priciala ''The Role of Serbia. A brief account of Serbia's place in world politics and her services during the war''] by Crawfurd Price, formerly Correspondent of the ''Times'' with the Serbian Army. 1918 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/serbiaspartinwar01pric ''Serbia's Part in the War, Volume I: The Rampart against Pan-Germanism being the political and military story of the Austro-Serbian campaigns''] by Crawfurd Price 1918. Archive.org. This appears to have been the only volume published.
*[https://archive.org/details/warineasterneuro00reeduoft/page/n3 "Part I Salonika, and Part II Serbia"] ''The War in Eastern Europe'' by John Reed 1916. Archive.org. Travel in April-October 1915. The author was an American journalist.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi205edinuoft#page/432/mode/2up "Obstruction’s Gentle Art"] by Douglas Walshe pages 433-449 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Volume 205, January-June 1919. Archive.org The start of the Salonika Campaign from 30 September 1915.
:Walshe was also the author of ''With the Serbs in Macedonia'', see further below. He was an officer with 708 Company M T, ASC, a Light Supply and Ammunition Column of Ford vans attached to the Serbian Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughserbianca00gord ''Through the Serbian campaign : the Great Retreat of the Serbian Army''] by Gordon Gordon-Smith 1916 Archive.org. During the Word War, the author, a journalist from 1887, was war correspondent of the ''Daily Graphic'' of London, of the ''Manchester Guardian'' and of the ''New York Tribune''.
:[https://archive.org/details/fromserbiatojugo00gordrich ''From Serbia to Jugoslavia: Serbia's Victories, Reverses and Final Triumph, 1914-1918''] by Gordon Gordon-Smith 1920 Archive.org.
* ''Serbia To Kut'' by Joseph T Parfit 1917. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict. The author, then or subsequently, was Canon of St George’s Jerusalem.
*[https://archive.org/details/guardiansofgateh00laffuoft ''The Guardians of the Gate : Historical Lectures on the Serbs''] by the Rev R. G. D Laffan 1918. Archive.org. Based on a series of lectures on [then] modern Serbian history given to the scattered companies of the [British] ASC (MT) attached to the Serbian Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/warineasterneuro00reeduoft/page/n3 "Part I Salonika, and Part II Serbia"] ''The War in Eastern Europe'' by John Reed 1916. Archive.org. Travel in April-October 1915. The author was an American journalist.
*[https://archive.org/details/storyofsalonicaa00pric ''The Story of the Salonica Army''] by G Ward Price, the official Correspondent of the Allied Forces in the Balkans 1918. [https://archive.org/details/storyofsalonicaa00priciala New York edition, published by Edward J Clode] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/salonicaaftersid00owenuoft ''Salonica and After, the Sideshow that ended the War''] by H. Collinson Owen, Editor of the ''Balkan News'', and Official correspondent in the Near East 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/serbiaeurope00mark ''Serbia and Europe, 1914-1920''] by Dr Lazare Marcovitch (Lazar Markovic) 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/macedoniancampai00vill ''The Macedonian Campaign''] by Luigi Villari 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/greeceallies00abbo ''Greece and the Allies, 1914-1922''] by G. F. Abbott [George Frederick] 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/salonicacityofgh00mazo/page/286 "The First World War"] Chapter 15, page 186 ''Salonica, City of Ghosts'' by Mark Mazower. 2005. [https://archive.org/details/salonicacityofgh00mazo/page/458 Endnotes] page 459. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
* ''Serbia To Kut'' by Joseph T Parfit 1917. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict. The author, then or subsequently, was Canon of St George’s Jerusalem.
====Medical====
*[http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg04macp#page/n3/mode/2up ''History of the Great War: Medical Services: General History, Volume IV''] by G W Macpherson 1924. Includes Salonika. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/war-surgery-hughes-banks/page/n9/mode/2up ''War Surgery from Firing-line to Base''] by Basil Hughes and H Stanley Banks 1919 Archive.org
*[https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/Detail/2R3BF1FC60MES ''Number 4 Canadian Hospital : the letters of Professor J.J. Mackenzie from the Salonika Front''] 1933 Digital Collection University of Calgary, Canada. Download may be possible, see under Actions "Permissions and access" (registration required, fee seems to/perhaps may apply for digital copies- see [https://libanswers.ucalgary.ca/ FAQ]).
=====Medical and related volunteers=====
*[https://archive.org/details/mybalkanlog00abra ''My Balkan Log''] by J Johnston Abraham 1922 Archive.org
:[http://www.vlib.us/medical/serbia.htm "With the First Red Cross Mission to Serbia"]. Extract from Chapter X , ''Surgeon's Journey'' by James Johnston Abraham, in charge of The First British Red Cross Serbian Mission in 1915. vlib.us
*[https://archive.org/details/underthreeflagsw00livirich ''Under Three Flags; with the Red Cross in Belgium, France and Serbia''] by St. Clair Livingston and Ingeborg Steen-Hansen 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/nationatbaywhata00farniala ''A Nation at Bay: What an American woman saw and did in suffering Serbia''] by Ruth S Farnam 1918 Archive.org. She initially worked at a hospital run by Madame Grouitch, an American married to a Serbian diplomat. Subsequently she joined a group connected with Prince and Princess Alexis where she was in charge of medical stores for hospitals in the area. Later she raised funds in England and America, and visited the American unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals at Ostrove.
*[https://archive.org/details/armiesofmercyvas07unse/page/144/mode/2up "Serbia’s Agony. How America Helped to Save a Land Laid Waste"] by Her Excellency Madame Slavko Grouitch page 144 ''The Armies of Mercy, Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume VII'' 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/ameliapeabodytil00tile ''Amelia Peabody Tileston and her canteens for the Serbs''] by Mary Wilder Tileston 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/reportsofamerica00amer ''Reports of the American Red Cross Commissions upon their activities in Macedonia, Thrace, Bulgaria, the Ægean Islands and Greece''] 1919 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/finalreportdepar00amerrich ''The American Red Cross Commission to Greece: Final report, Department of civilian relief, exclusive of the districts of the Aegean Islands and eastern Macedonia''] 1919
:[https://archive.org/details/reliefworkineast00amerrich ''The American Red Cross Commission to Greece: Relief work in eastern Macedonia''] 1919
====Corps histories and accounts====
*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-06.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VI: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine 1914-18''], edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952. nzsappers.org.nz. Note: Volume VI does not include information about Signals as "The history of their work is being produced by the Royal Corps of Signals themselves".<ref>michaeldr. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/251301-royal-engineers-soldier-abandoned-in-gallipoli/?do=findComment&comment=2538402 Royal Engineers soldier abandoned in Gallipoli] ''Great War Forum'' 29 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.</ref>
:"An Unofficial History of the Signal Service with the British Salonika Force 1915-1918" by Capt C C S White ''The Royal Engineers Journal''. nzsappers.org.nz
:[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1926-December.pdf Part 1] Scroll to pages 647-658 (the digital file commences page 537) Vol XL No 4 December 1926; and [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1927-March.pdf Part 2] Scroll to pages 97-108 Vol XLI No 1 March 1927. The latter also includes the Occupation of Constantinople, see [[Norperforce]].
:From ''The Motor Cycle, Volume 16'' Archive.org. At least some of the Despatch Riders were part of a Signals company [Royal Engineers]
:*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle16lond_/motorcycle16lond#page/n185/mode/1up "The Supreme Test. The Motor Cycle makes good in the Balkans"] page 116B February 3rd, 1916.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle16lond_/motorcycle16lond#page/n268/mode/1up "Despatch Riding including Salonika"] page [1]74 February 24th 1916.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle16lond_/motorcycle16lond#page/n313/mode/1up/ "With the Salonika Forces"] page 214 March 2nd 1916.
:[https://archive.org/details/65-re/page/n9/mode/2up ''65 R. E.. A Short Record of the Service of the 65th Field Company Royal Engineers''] by Alan Colquhoun Duff 1920 Archive.org. The Company also served at [[Gallipoli]], and in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
:[https://archive.org/details/further-rec-107th-fc/page/n5/mode/2up ''Further Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R. E''] 1920 Archive.org. Elsewhere the editors are stated to be "Sapper J Robertson and former Lieutenant M J Rattray", of 107th Field Coy., Royal Engineers. The second of two volumes of history of this Field Company of the Royal Engineers during the First World War, the first volume being ''Collections and Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.'', published in 1918.
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3973360 KV 1/17 Imperial Overseas Intelligence 1915-1919: Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau]. Link to a free record download from the National Archives, Kew. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C3973358 KV 1/16-19] Includes KV 1/18 Cyprus and KV 1/19 Summary which may also contain related material.
==== British Army regimental histories and accounts====
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/490/mode/2up "The End of a Long Pause"] by H R W page 491 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Volume 201 January-June 1917. Archive.org. An account of an officer near the Front.
*[https://archive.org/details/insalonicawithou00lakerich ''In Salonica With Our Army''] by Harold Lake [1917]. Archive.org. Also published as [https://archive.org/details/campaigninginba01lakegoog ''Campaigning in the Balkans''] by Lieutenant Harold Lake, New York 1918. Archive.org. The author was with the British Army, an officer in what appears to be an infantry regiment. It is stated elsewhere he was with the Durham Light Infantry.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XoHCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 Page 26] ''The Other Wars: The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia'' by Justin Fantauzzo. Sample pages Google Books.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/songoftiadatha00ruttiala ''The Song of Tiadatha''] by Captain Owen Rutter (‘Klip-Klip’), first published 1919. Verses. The author was with the 7th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment and edited the ''Balkan News''. He formerly was in the North Borneo Civil Service. Archive.org
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz40749670X ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles or 18th (County of London) Battalion, the London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), part of [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2/2nd London) Division]]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta (from December 1916, page 63), Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". [https://archive.org/details/glimpsesgreatwar/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/second-twentieth-london-reg/page/n9/mode/2up'' The Second Twentieth being the History of the 2/20th Bn., London Regiment''] by Captain W R Elliot [1920] Archive.org. The Battalion served on the [[Western Front]], at Salonika, in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]]. The Battalion was part of the 60th Division, see third following item.
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51387 ''The History of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles''] by several authors, including some named 1921. Gutenberg.org. Also known as 2/15th (County of London) Battalion (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles). The Battalion was part of the 179th Brigade , 60th Division in Salonika (from December 1916) and Palestine. [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] (longlongtrail.co.uk)
*[https://archive.org/details/subalterninserbi00younrich ''A Subaltern in Serbia and some Letters from the Struma Valley''] by Captain A Donovan Young, Captain, Indian Army. Catalogued 1922. Archive.org. He was part of an Irish Battalion in the 10th (Irish) Division.
*[https://archive.org/details/romanceoflastcru00vivi/page/50/mode/2up "The Balkans"] Chapter III, page 50 ''The romance of the last crusade : with Allenby to Jerusalem'' by Major Vivian Gilbert 1923. Archive.org. Gilbert was in the Machine Guns Corps (Infantry), in the 180th Brigade, [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] (longlongtrail.co.uk) which was in Salonica for 5 months from late December 1916, until they left to join Allenby in Palestine.
*''History of the 60th Division (2/2nd London Division)'' by Colonel P H Dalbiac, 1927 includes [https://archive.org/details/60thdivision/page/63/mode/2up Chapter 6, "Under Orders for the Balkans"], page 63. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/salonikafront00mannuoft/page/n11 ''The Salonika Front''] by Arthur James Mann, late Recording Officer 22 Balloon Company; paintings by William Thomas Wood. 1920. [https://archive.org/details/salonikafront00mannrich File 2] both Archive.org. The images in the two digital files vary in colour. The image [https://archive.org/details/salonikafront00mannuoft/page/n99 "Dorian Town and Lake"], between pages 42-43, is the header image used by the Salonika Campaign Society and was painted by Wood in 1917 whilst an acting corporal in a balloon company (RFC), although he later became an official war artist.<ref> Salonika Campaign Society, see External links above.</ref>
====GeneralMiscellaneous====  *[https://archive.org/details/armiesofmercyvas07unse/page/144/mode/2up "Serbia’s Agony. How America Helped to Save a Land Laid Waste"] by Her Excellency Madame Slavko Grouitch page 144 ''The Armies of Mercy, Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume VII'' 1920 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/ameliapeabodytil00tile ''Amelia Peabody Tileston and her canteens for the Serbs''] by Mary Wilder Tileston 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/englishwomanserg00sanduoft ''An English woman-sergeant in the Serbian Army''] by Flora Sandes 1916 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/englishwomansergeant_1406_librivox LibriVox audio recording] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/HeAutobiographyOfAWomanSoldierABriefRecordOfAdventureWithThe ''The Autobiography of a Woman Soldier: A Brief Record of Adventure with the Serbian Army 1916-1919''] by Flora Sandes c 1927 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/lovelysergeant00burg ''The Lovely Sergeant''] by Alan Burgess 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Flora Sandes
 
 
*From ''The Motor Cycle, Volume 16'' Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle16lond_/motorcycle16lond#page/n185/mode/1up "The Supreme Test. The Motor Cycle makes good in the Balkans"] page 116B February 3rd, 1916.
**[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle16lond_/motorcycle16lond#page/n268/mode/1up "Despatch Riding including Salonika"] page [1]74 February 24th 1916.
**[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle16lond_/motorcycle16lond#page/n313/mode/1up/ "With the Salonika Forces"] page 214 March 2nd 1916.
 
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/490/mode/2up "The End of a Long Pause"] by H R W page 491 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Volume 201 January-June 1917. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/songoftiadatha00ruttiala ''The Song of Tiadatha''] by Captain Owen Rutter (‘Klip-Klip’), first published 1919. The author was with the 7th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment and edited the ''Balkan News''. He formerly was in the North Borneo Civil Service. Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/details/serbiaeurope00mark ''Serbia and Europe, 1914-1920''] by Dr Lazare Marcovitch (Lazar Markovic) 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/subalterninserbi00younrich ''A Subaltern in Serbia and some Letters from the Struma Valley''] by Captain A Donovan Young, Captain, Indian Army. Catalogued 1922. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/macedoniancampai00vill ''The Macedonian Campaign''] by Luigi Villari 1922 Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/details/greeceallies00abbo ''Greece and the Allies, 1914-1922''] by G. F. Abbott [George Frederick] 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/reportsofamerica00amer ''Reports of the American Red Cross Commissions upon their activities in Macedonia, Thrace, Bulgaria, the Ægean Islands and Greece''] 1919 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/finalreportdepar00amerrich ''The American Red Cross Commission to Greece: Final report, Department of civilian relief, exclusive of the districts of the Aegean Islands and eastern Macedonia''] 1919
:[https://archive.org/details/reliefworkineast00amerrich ''The American Red Cross Commission to Greece:Relief work in eastern Macedonia''] 1919
 
*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
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