2-710-805 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Serbian Army General Staff On Their Retreat Through Albania', (1919). The Serbian army's 1915 retreat through the mountains of Albania during the First World War: 'The Commander-in-Chief (General Putnik) of the Serbians, although feeble in body and advanced in years, was possessed of a great and alert mind. Despite the fact that he had to be carried in a sedan chair, he directed the retreat with such consummate skill and generalship that he brought the Army safely through its awful trials more than 200,000 strong.' However some 240,000 died from cold, starvation, disease, and attacks by Albanian tribesmen. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. VI, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]