THE MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA By Professor PASQUALE VILLARI Translated by LINDA VILLARI Illustrated. Cloth, 8s. 6d. net THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI By Professor PASQUALE VILLARI Translated by LINDA VILLARI Illustrated. Cloth, 8s. 6d. net T. FISHER UNWIN LTD LONDON [Illustration: GENERAL SIR G. F. MILNE. Frontispiece. ] THE MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN _By_ LUIGI VILLARI _With Illustrations and Maps_ T. FISHER UNWIN LTD LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE _First published in English 1922_ (_All rights reserved_) PREFATORY NOTE The operations of the Allied forces, and in particular those of the Italian contingent in Macedonia, are less well known than those of almost any other of the many campaigns into which the World War is subdivided. There have already been several published accounts of it in English and French, but these works have dealt almost exclusively with the action of the British or French contingent, and are mostly of a polemical or journalistic character; very little has been written about the other Allied forces, or about the campaign as a whole. Owing to the position which I held for two years as Italian liaison officer with the various Allied Commands in the East, I have been able to collect a good deal of unpublished material on the subject, and I felt that it might be useful to give a consecutive account of these events, correcting many inaccuracies which have been spread about. The book was written originally in Italian, and dealt in particular detail with the operations of the Italian expeditionary force. In the present English edition I have omitted certain details concerning the Italian force, which were of less interest for a non-Italian public, while I have added some further material of a general character, which I only obtained since the Italian edition was written. The published authoritative and reliable sources for the history of the Macedonian campaign are very few. A bibliography is appended. Besides my own notes and recollections of the events, set down day by day, and the records of various conversations which I had with the chief actors in the Balkan war drama, I must acknowledge the valuable assistance afforded to me by various Italian and foreign officers and officials. My especial thanks are due to the following: General Petitti di Roreto, for information on the events of the early period of the campaign; General Ernesto Mombelli, who supplied me with a great deal of useful information and advice on the latter period; Colonel Vitale, under whom I worked for some time, and who first instructed me in the duties of a liaison officer;