The History of the Italian-Turkish War, September to October to October 18 (Classic Reprint)

This history was compiled from the semi-official publications of the Naval Ministries of Qermany, Italy and A ustria, viz.: Marine Rundschau, Bivista Marittima, and Mittheilungen aus dem Qebiete des Seewesens, corroborated by the facts as described in other foreign publications such as LeY acht, the British Army and Navy weeklies, the London Illustrated News and Graphic, besides Ueberall, the organ of the Qerman navy league. In this compilation conflicting or doubtful statements were eliminated and only such details that are thoroughly reliable are given. The writer served for a period of three years and nine months as Naval Attach to the United States Embassies in Berlin, Borne and Vienna, and he knows that these semi-official publications are thoroughly reliable and therefore he claims that the facts herein recorded are true. The account was primarily compiled for the information of the United States Navy and was submitted by the writer to the Board of Control of the Naval Institute for revision. This was thereupon published in a series of four articles in the current quarterly Proceedings of the Naval Institute for June, September and December, 1912, and March, 1913. The type of these articles was distributed and in order to preserve the data in book form the four series of articles were reprinted in a limited edition for general circulation. The book contains the four articles that were published with eonsiderable additional data, such as the complete account of the defences of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus taken from the Journal of the Boyal Artillery for January, 1913, embodying the translation from the Bussian Artillery Journal by Lieutenant J. K. L. Fitzwi Uiams, Boyal Horse Artillery on The Coast Defences of Turkey. The Honorable Philander Enox, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C, also kindly sent the writer the full text of the Treaty of Peace of
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