The Danger Zone of Europe: Changes and Problems in the Near East
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 328pp., 52 ill., 3 maps. Original three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards with gilt ruling on cover and spine, gilt lettering and tooling on spine; raised bands. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. 2 Advertisements. Frontispiece photograph, with tissue guard. "My most important motive in publishing this volume has been to explain some of the changes which have occurred, and to draw attention to a few of the problems which have arisen in the Near East as direct or indirect results of the Young Turk revolution of July, 1908. This book, therefore, makes no pretensions to be a learned and exhaustive dissertation upon any international problem. It claims merely to be the result of observations which I have made during two extended tours in the Near East since the advent of the Constitutional Régime in Turkey." (Author). Observations illustrating the connections of various historic developments and their potential for future wars in Turkey, Albania, Armenia, including the massacre of April 1909 (pp. 120–188), Asia Minor, Crete, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia. Woods was an English officer who traveled extensively in the Near East. Illustrated with intriguing 52 b/w photographs on 49 plates, and two in-text map sketches, and one folding map of the entire Near East. Block uncut at foredge, illustrated Ex-Libris on inside front cover. Minor wear. near fine. Item #45179
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