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The Institute for Balkan Studies and the National Research Foundation "Eleftherios K. Venizelos" were the joint organizers of an international conference on "The Salonica Theatre of Operations and the Outcome of the Great War", which was held in Thessaloniki on 16-18 April 2002.
Certainly, the name of Salonica does not have the same resonance as those of Verdun, the Somme, Tannenberg, Caporetto, and Gallipoli, which have become landmarks in the history of human self-destruction. Yet Salonica can, and should, claim a share both in the collective endeavour of 1914-18 and in its eventual outcome. In the first place, the military operations conducted in the Salonica theatre of operations had ail the characteristics that typified that confrontation: static war, poison gas, air bombardments, wide-range torpedo attacks -in short everything that made World War I an all-out conflict unprecedented in its time.
At the level of wider planning, the Salonica theatre of operations was a classic example of peripheral strategy in the context of a widespread war. In other words, it provides an answer to the question of what is the role and the value of the secondary fronts which, after a period of relative inertia, are activated at just the right moment with a view to dynamically reversing the current situation and even forcing the final outcome.
We refer, of course, to the part played by the Allied counter-attack in September 1918, which achieved the breach that eventually brought the enemy edifice tumbling down as, one by one, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and, finally, Germany capitulated.
So the Salonica Front may have been one of the least conspicuous in terms of concentrated military power, strategic priorities, and loss of life, but it fully repaid its three-year existence in terms of its effectiveness.
The conference sought to evaluate the manifold aspects of the subject, focusing mainly on the final phase of the War, with the participation of distinguished experts from Greece and abroad.
CONTENT:
Pery Lafazani - Myron Myridis, Approche geographique de la region de Macedoine en 1900-1920
Yannis Mourelos, Le front d'Orient en 1916. Enjeux et strategies
Holger Atflerbach, Greece and the Balkan Area in German Strategy, 1914-1918
Georgi Markov, The Southern Front in Bulgaria's Foreign Policy and Strategy Angeliki Sfika-Theodosiou, Italy and the War in South-Eastern Europe: Aims and Prospects
Costica Prodan, The Romanian and the Salonica Fronts in the Geostrategic Framework of the Second Half of the Year 1916
Nikolaos E. Papadakis, 'Eleftherios Venizelos' Strategic Goals and the Salonica Theatre of Operations
Helen Gardikas-Katsiadakis, Greek Diplomatic Planning, 1917-1918
Renaud Dorlhiac, Le front d'Orient face a la question Albanaise: La republique de Korytza
Dimitre Minchev, The Bulgarian Army at the Salonica Front
Gerard Fassy, La reorganisation du commandement des Armees Alliees d'Orient par le general Guillaumat (janvier - mai 1918)
Prodromos Spahidis, The Greek Army in World War I
Angeliki Dimitriou, The Greek Fighter on the Macedonian Front during World War I Francine Saint-Ramond Roussanne, Les "Planques" du front d'Orient
Mile Bjelajac, The Other Side of the War: Treatment of Wounded and Captured Enemies by the Serbian Army
Gerasimos E. Pentogalos, Medical Problems on the Salonica Front, 1915-1918
Patrick Facon, Le soldat francais d'Orient face a la maladie
Vassilis S. Colonas, Salonique pendant la Premiere Guerre mondiale
Alexandra Yerolympos, L'incendie de Salonique en aout 1917. Fait divers ou "degat collateral"?
Charalambos Papastathis, The Fire of Salonica and the Allies Dusan T. Batakovic, The Salonica Trial 1917: Black Hand vs. Democracy (The Serbian Army from Internal Strife to Military Success)
Loukianos I. Hassiotis, Forcible Relocation from Greek Macedonia during the First World War
Bruno Hamard, Le rdle des troupes de Salonique dans la victoire alliee de 1918 Andrej Mitrovic, Political Consequences of the Break up of the Salonica Front Jean-Claude Allain, Les armistices de la Grande Guerre de l'Orient a l'Occident
Spiridon Sfetas, From Expectation to Disappointment: Bulgaria 's Capitulation in Salonica
Xanthippi Kotzageorgi-Zymari, The Greek Military Mission in Sofia, 1918-1920. Fields and Coordinates of its Action
Jean Delmas, Le devenir de l'Armee Francaise d'Orient
Remy Porte, Militaires Francais et renseignement en Grece et sur le Front d'Orient, 1915-1924. Approche historiographique des sources francaises Slobodan Markovic, British Perceptions of the Salonica Front and the Belligerent Balkan Countries
Milan Ristovic, The Macedonian (Salonica) Front in Serbian and Yugoslav Historiography
