PREFATORY  NOTE

The war which broke out in October,
1912, between Turkey and the Allied
Balkan States is so important, regarded
either from the point of view of its bear¬
ing on the wider international politics of
Europe or from that of the lessons which
it holds for students of the technique of
war, that it has necessarily attracted the
attention of many writers specially quali¬
fied to discuss it in one or both of those
aspects. My apology for adding another
to the list of war books must be that I
have made no attempt to write as a
tactician or as a historian. I went out
to  Turkey as a correspondent  belonging

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