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The author of this memoir of the Salonika front a neglected theatre of the Great War was himself an Oxford-educated scholar of ancient Greek. Stanley Casson 1889-1944 had a spell in the Flanders trenches where he wrote war poetry before being sent to the more congenial climate of Greece. As an expert on the country he joined the General Staff and was present when the Bulgarian front broke, and the British, French, Greek and Serb Allies pushed up into a defeated Austria. After the war, Casson became director of the British School in Athens and died during the second World War in a plane crash while again serving as a liaison

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• Full title: STEADY DRUMMER
• Author: STANLEY REGT.
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 391
• EAN: 9781845749231
• ISBN: 9781845749231
• ID: 06526265
• Publisher: NAVAL & MILITARY PRESS
• Weight: 481 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. October 2015

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