We Must Stop the Bear!
The Balkans has always been a point of contention between the East and the West, and although the various incarnations of Hungary, Austria, and Austria-Hungary
Three Players in the Balkan Sandbox
The last thousand years of Balkan history is a tale of three powers pulling on the limbs of an infant, as in the Biblical parable
Yet Another Balkan Crisis
The provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be occupied and administered by Austria-Hungary…Austria-Hungary reserves the right to maintain garrisons and to have military and trading
French Artillery in the Balkans
Very rarely is a shooting war in the Balkans about the subject which everyone claims was the Cassius Belli. Sometimes it is about a political
The War That Wasn’t Quite a War
On 1 March 1906 Austria-Hungary decided they had enough of what they considered Serbia’s perfidy and decided to hit the Balkan country back where it
Franco-Serbian Tactics and Prussian-Ottoman Strategy in Kumanovo
By the Battle Of Kumanovo on 23 – 24 October 1912, the First Balkan War was young, but already in full swing – it would
A Very Balkan Assassination
“If you want to have serious riots in Yugoslavia or cause a regime change, you need to kill me. Shoot at me and be sure
Typically Twisted – Politics of the Balkan Wars
The nineteenth century wasn’t a great time for the Ottoman Empire. It wasn’t the worst time, that would be the beginning of the twentieth century
The Plague that Killed the Emperor
“Is any man afraid of change? What can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? Can
From Plague to Vampires
The most popular walking tours in London include strolling by known plague pit sites, where the hundreds of thousands of Londoners who died during the