World's War Events

Nineteen dispatches from the war's last two years, told by the people who were there — a destroyer officer's diary, Pershing's own report, the raid on Zeebrugge, the fighting Czecho-Slovaks — ending with the Armistice terms and the treaties that redrew the map.

Bulgaria Quits

13 pages in this part of World's War Events.

Bulgaria Quits

BULGARIA'S withdrawal from the Teutonic block and her frank capitulation to the Allies is easily the most dramatic episode of the World…

Bulgaria Quits: Bulgarian

Yet in such hours we should clarify our vision by insistent remembrance of Clausewitz's famous saying that war is but the extension of…

Bulgaria Quits: Bulgarians

The Bulgarians have often been called the Prussians of the Balkans, and in this characterization there is a large measure of truth. A…

Bulgaria Quits: Bukharest

The Peace of Bukharest But that was by no means the whole story. Race-unity may have been the goal for which the simple Bulgarian peasant…

Bulgaria Quits: Rumania

There can be no question that when Bulgaria entered the war on the Teutonic side in the autumn of 1915 she did so with the hearty assent of…

Bulgaria Quits: Russian

Bulgaria only a link in Mitteleuropa.

Bulgaria Quits: Saloniki

A third shock was in store. Ever since the spring of 1916 Bulgaria had occupied the Drama-Serres-Kavala districts of Greek Macedonia. In…

Bulgaria Quits: German

So reasoned the suave German diplomats. The effect upon Bulgarian sensibilities can be imagined. How far removed was this drab reality from…

Bulgaria Quits: Peace

But just a month after Malinov's accession came the dramatic shift of fortune in the West. The German offensive broke down, and the Allies…

Bulgaria Quits: Turkey

The consequences of Bulgaria's capitulation should be both momentous and far-reaching. In the first place, Turkey's doom is sealed. Cut off…

Bulgaria Quits: Rumanians

A second possibility is the liberation of Rumania. The "peace" imposed upon Rumania by the Central powers last spring was one of the most…

Bulgaria Quits: Allied

Lastly, there is Austria-Hungary. Bulgaria's capitulation opens the way for the liberation of Serbia and an Allied push to the Austrian…

Bulgaria Quits: Germany

These are the major consequences which seem likely to flow from Bulgaria's surrender. There remains the question of the future attitude of…

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