Macedonian Front 1917: the marble fields of Greece
Article in Hellenic News of Armerica by Marc d’ Entremont
A hundred years! A hundred years are gone
Of Grecian mornings and of Grecian sunsets!
Make them a coffin wide, O carpenter,
And bury them, the hapless dead, in silence!
(Kostas Palamas 1859-1943)
By the dawn of the 20th century the three major regional kingdoms bordering what would become the First World War’s Macedonian Front (Greece, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria) were players in a grand game of thrones. Britain, France and Germany would dictate the script. The chess pieces in this first round of what would be an ever more deadly 20th century spiral would be a generation of young men.
I have just crossed the Bulgarian border at Kulata into Greece traveling from the resort town of Bansko through the beautiful mountains of Pirin National Park into central Macedonia. Marketing guru and friend, Sofia Bournatzi, and her father, have greeted me. I’m told we’re on our way to Fort Roupel…
Link: https://hellenicnews.com/2017/10/25/macedonian-front-1917-the-marble-fields
