Naslov
View from the Outside: Memory of Foreigners, Participants of the Balkan Wars

Autori
Despot, Igor

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
THE CENTENARY OF THE BALKAN WARS (1912-1913): CONTESTED STANCES / Turkes, Mustafa - Ankara : Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2014, 427-432

ISBN
978- 975-16-2943-2

Skup
The Centenary of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913): Contested Stances

Mjesto i datum
Ankara, Turska, 23.05.2013. - 24.05.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Balkan Wars; foreigners; journalists

Sažetak
During the Balkan wars, lot of foreigners came on the areas affected by armed conflict, including adventurers. As early as 1912 some of them began with the publication of war memories. There were foreign correspondents, people who participated in the missions of the Red Cross, the military attaches. Governments tried to restrict their movement and keep them away from the frontlines, but their memories of war are still valuable to historians. Although they failed to reach the battlefield, they were able to evaluate the atmosphere in the belligerent countries, the situation in the medical corps, the level of armaments, the stereotypes that peoples had about each other and the propaganda methods of the individual states. In addition, foreigners with their cameras recorded many interesting events of the Balkan wars. Because of broken lines of defense, reporters managed to come to the frontlines in the Ottoman Empire, while in other states they reached the area mainly after major battles. In this work I analyze memories published in English, Italian, Serbian and Bulgarian language in the last one hundred years. Journalists Lionel James, Phillip Gibbs, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, Leon Trotsky, A.H. Trapmann, Bernard Grant, Eugenio Guarino, Giulio Barrela, Noel Buxton (also one of the leaders of the Balkan Committee in London), physician Adolf Vischer, and assistant in a hospital of the Red Cross Joyce Cary, later the famous writer, in their published memoires have left their views that were different than the picture that countries involved in war wanted to present. In my analysis I will try to submit their picture of wars and define the impact of censorship on their findings.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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