Reviews

Under the Devil's Eye: Britain's Forgotten Army at Salonika 1915-1918 by Simon Moody, Alan Wakefield

nwhyte's review

http://nhw.livejournal.com/689793.html[return][return]This is much more of a grass-roots story compared to Alan Palmer's geopolitical survey, livened up by direct accounts from the soldiers themselves, either from contemporary letters or from memoirs. It also concentrates exclusively on the British, with one benefit being an entire chapter on the Struma Valley battles of 1916 which Palmer almost ignores. The maps are by far the clearest of any of the books I've consulted so far (though I do wish I had access to the colour maps which graced Cyril Falls' first edition).