Balkan Legacies of the Great War

Download or read book Balkan Legacies of the Great War written by Othon Anastasakis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a rich yet succinct account of an underexplored story: the consequences of the Great War for the region which ignited it. It offers a fascinating tapestry: the collapse of Empires, the birth of Turkey and Yugoslavia, Greece as both victor and loser, Bulgaria's humiliating defeat; bitter memories, forced migrations, territorial implications and collective national amnesias. The legacies live on. The contributions in this volume significantly enhance the debate about how the Great War is remembered in South East Europe, and why it still evokes such strong emotions and reactions, more than a century after its beginnings.