Secrets of the Balkans: Seven Years of a Diplomatist's Life in the Storm Centre of Europe

The story of the Balkan nations, from the earliest times, dealing briefly with the many centuries of invasion, oppression and continual fighting for liberty, and dwelling in detail on the struggle in World War I, when their lands were again coveted as spoils of war.
The author was U. S. envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania, Serbia, and Bulgaria from 1913 through 1920.