Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: The Outbreak of the Great War

This is presented by the publishers as the first history of the Great War to address in depth the events of 1914 as they played out on the Balkan Front. It starts with the Sarajevo assassination, then the first battles of the war, with the first Allied victories and the military humiliation which Austria-Hungary suffered at the hands of tiny Serbia. Lyon discusses the oversized role Serbia played for the Allies in 1914, challenging existing historiography which contends that the Austrians were ill prepared for war. A very useful addition to this rather sparsely covered subject.