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...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. Salonika's gardeners were discarded tacticians sent off by World War I commanders in chief to dig trenches on the forgotten Macedonian front. But French General Franchet d'Esperey clearly recognized a strategic advantage and sent his neglected troops slicing toward the heart of Germany through the Balkans, thus hastening the Kaiser's downfall...
...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA by Alan Palmer. 285 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.50. Late in September 1918, the Kaiser was bluntly told by his generals that Germany had lost World War I. Why? "As a result," Field Marshal von Hindenburg explained, "of the collapse of the Macedonian front." He was stunned. He had been scarcely aware that there was a Macedonian front, let alone that it mattered. And, like the Kaiser, historians have largely ignored the mixed army of British, French, Serbs, Greeks and Italians that broke through the Macedonian mountains, forced Bulgaria's surrender, and was sweeping northward toward...
...Bleeding Ulcer. The Macedonian campaign, which started as a seemingly minor ulcer, ultimately bled Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany to death. But, speculates Author Palmer, "if the breakthrough was possible in 1918, would not a determined offensive earlier in the war have had the same result?" And if it had, how many fewer Allied and German soldiers would lie buried beneath the red poppies of Flanders' fields...
...that "a friend of mine, observing some of my problems, recently sent me for my desk a quotation from a Roman consul back in 168 B.C." The consul was Lucius Aemilius Paulus, speaking to the Roman Senate, which had picked him to lead Rome's legions in the Macedonian war, then heaped criticism upon his conduct of that war. Said Paulus: "I am not one of those who think that commanders ought at no time to receive advice; on the contrary, 1 should deem that man more proud than wise who regulated every proceeding by the standard...
...Waldorf chain, which is trying to upgrade its image, menus and income, should be able to pick up some ideas from its new partner. Restaurant Associates specializes in distinctive touches, from a sybaritic menu at the Forum (truffle-stuffed quail wrapped in Macedonian vine leaves) to the farm market displays of fresh vegetables, fruits and gourds that decorate the Top of the Fair restaurant at the World's Fair (which the firm took over this year). To wring a profit from its three restaurants in Manhattan's gargantuan new Pan American Building, President and Chief Executive Joseph...