
Under the Devil's Eye
Britain's Forgotten Army at Salonika 1915-1918
Sutton Publishing Ltd
Will be published approx. on 29. September 2004
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7509-3537-1 (ISBN)
Description
The British Salonika Force landed in Greece in October 1915, to deter Bulgaria from joining the Central Powers, Germany and Austria-Hungary, in attacking Serbia. The campaign was, from the British perspective, always destined to be a 'side show'. Britain had no political, commercial or strategic interests in the region beyond prosecuting the First World War to a favourable conclusion, but the demands of coalition warfare made a continued Anglo-French presence necessary. From mid-1917, however, the War Office plundered the British Salonika Force's manpower to support offensives in Palestine and on the Western Front. Men who had joined up to fight the Kaiser's Army after its invasion of Belgium found themselves facing Bulgarians in a remote corner of Europe. The public at large either forgot about the campaign or joined in its denigration. 'The Devil's Eye' was the soldiers' name for the infamous Bulgarian observation post overlooking the British line at Doiran. The troops who fought in the Balkans, and especially the British contingent, became a forgotten army. Along with Gallipoli and campaigns in Italy and Palestine, Salonika is a 'missing link' in the British war effort of the Fi
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Publishing group
The History Press Ltd
Illustrations
60 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-3537-1 (9780750935371)
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Alan Wakefield is chairman of the Salonika Campaign Society and a member of the British Commission for Military History, the Western Front Association and the Gallipoli Association. Simon Moody is a member of the British Commission for Military History and the Society of First World War Aviation Historians, and edits the Salonika Campaign Society newsletter.