The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean - E. Alexander Powell

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       E. Alexander Powell

      The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066148102

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       THE NEW FRONTIERS OF FREEDOM

       CHAPTER I

       ACROSS THE REDEEMED LANDS

       CHAPTER II

       THE BORDERLAND OF SLAV AND LATIN

       CHAPTER III

       THE CEMETERY OF FOUR EMPIRES

       CHAPTER IV

       UNDER THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT

       CHAPTER V

       WILL THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE RECOVER?

       CHAPTER VI

       WHAT THE PEACE-MAKERS HAVE DONE ON THE DANUBE

       CHAPTER VII

       MAKING A NATION TO ORDER

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The Queen of Rumania tells Major Powell that she enjoys being a Queen
His first sight of the Terra Irridenta
The end of the day
A little mother of the Tyrol
Italy's new frontier
This is not Venice, as you might suppose, but Trieste
At the gates of Fiume
The inhabitants of Fiume cheering d'Annunzio and his raiders
His Majesty Nicholas I, King of Montenegro
Two conspirators of Antivari
The head men of Ljaskoviki, Albania, waiting to bid Major and Mrs. Powell farewell
The ancient walls of Salonika
Yildiz Kiosk, the favorite palace of Abdul-Hamid and his successors on the throne of Osman
The Red Badge of Mercy in the Balkans
The gypsy who demanded five lei for the privilege of taking her picture
A peasant of Old Serbia
King Ferdinand tells Mrs. Powell his opinion of the fashion in which the Peace Conference treated Rumania
The wine-shop which is pointed out to visitors as "the Cradle of the War"

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      It is unwise, generally speaking, to write about countries and peoples when they are in a state of political flux, for what is true at the moment of writing may be misleading the next. But the conditions which prevailed in the lands beyond the Adriatic during the year succeeding the signing of the Armistice were so extraordinary, so picturesque, so wholly without parallel in European history, that they form a sort of epilogue, as it were, to the story of the great conflict. To have witnessed the dismemberment of an empire which was hoary with antiquity when the Republic in which we live was yet unborn; to have seen insignificant states expand almost overnight into powerful nations; to

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