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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...
Would the King's new choice be any more successful than his others? Not if the royal nemesis could do anything to foil him. Calling for a gigantic convocation of his demonstration-happy followers in Salonika, canny old George Papandreou declaimed: "Governments and Parliaments must reflect the will of the people, and neither this government nor Parliament does that. But the people's will shall win, and the people will wipe this government out of existence." In downtown Athens, 10,000 left-wing union members rallied at a theater and demanded Papandreou's return or immediate elections...
...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. During World War I, the Allies used Macedonia as a dumping ground for out-of -favor generals. But in 1918, French General Franchet d'Esperey refused to stay dumped; instead he struck boldly at the heart of Germany through Belgrade and Vienna. Palmer tells the story of D'Esperey's swift and decisive drive in highly readable style, and wonders aloud why this strategy was not followed three years earlier...
...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. During World War I, the Allies used Macedonia as a dumping ground for out-of-favor generals. But in 1918 French General Franchet d'Esperey refused to stay dumped; instead, he struck boldly at the heart of Germany through Belgrade and Vienna. Palmer tells the story of D'Esperey's swift and decisive drive in highly readable style, and also wonders aloud why this strategy was not followed three years earlier...
...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...