Excerpt from The Balkan War: Adventures of War With Cross and CrescentA battle is soon fought, soon won, and soon lost. It is, as a rule, on such an extended front that no man may see but a little corner of it. But the drama of war is more than that. It is in what goes before the battle and What follows it. It is the strange amazing drama of great peoples suddenly breaking away from.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.