Without the help of many good spirits, this volume would not have seen the light of day. We
would like to acknowledge the assistance of the colleagues and institutions that actively
supported the publication of this book, and to express our sincere gratitude. Dr. Wolfgang
Levermann of the Volkswagen Foundation has been sympathetic to the project from our
initial proposal to organize the conference “The Balkan Wars 1912/13: Experience,
Perception, Remembrance” in Istanbul to the completion of the present volume. Both have …

In this decade of noisy anniversaries, the centenary of the Balkan Wars (1912–13) seems to
have been overshadowed, at least in popular attention and journalism, by the attention
dispensed on the Great War and the Russian Revolutions of 1917. This was not the case, of
course, in the Balkan countries, where the anniversary served as a reassessment and
solemn commemorations. Outside of the Balkans, both in the US and Europe, the scholarly
community devoted conferences, special journal issues, and a few collective volumes to the …