World War I
It is unwise, generally speaking, to write about countries and peoples when they are in a state of political flux, for what is true at the moment of writing may be misleading the next. But the conditions which prevailed in the lands beyond the Adriatic during the year succeedi...
It is unwise, generally speaking, to write about countries and peoples when they are in a state of political flux, for what is true at the moment of writing may be misleading th...
2. Chapter 2It was the same along the entire line of the Armistice from the Brenner down to Istria. Whenever the officials with whom we talked heard that we were going to Fiume, they shook...
3. Chapter 3We stood on the forward deck of the _Sirio_ as she slipped southward, through the placid waters of the Adriatic, at twenty knots an hour. Less than a league away the Balkan moun...
4. Chapter 4Salonika is superbly situated. To gain it from the seaward side you sail through a portal formed by the majestic peaks of Athos and Olympus. It reclines on the bronze-brown Mace...
5. Chapter 5Each time that I have approached Constantinople from the Marmora Sea and have watched that glorious and fascinating panorama--Seraglio Point, St. Sophia, Stamboul, the Golden Ho...
6. Chapter 6When I called upon M. Bratianu, the Prime Minister of Rumania, who was in Paris as a delegate to the Peace Conference, I opened the conversation by innocently remarking that I p...
7. Chapter 7From the young officers who wore on their shoulders the silver greyhound of the American Courier Service we heard many discouraging tales of the annoyances and discomforts for w...