The Balkans was a savage sideshow of World War 1 featuring all the horrors that modern industrial warfare could create. Add in extreme cold during Winter and Tropical diseases during the warmer months and you have a uniquely miserable campaign.

Sources: Balkan Battlegrounds (US Army Center of Military History, 2002), The First World War by John Keegan, The Salonika Front by Alan Wakefield, Australian War Memorial, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 (Charles Bean, Vol. III)

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