From a strategic point of view, the episode of the Eastern Army (l’armée d’Orient), a term that encompasses the presence of allied soldiers in Greece and Macedonia from October 1915 to the end of World War I, was not a success. Maintaining several hundred thousand men for three years in a foreign territory, however, was a logistical feat in which railways played a crucial role. Their history includes mainly French and British allied troops’ use of railroad lines after their arrival in Salonika : following the armies’ maneuvers and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the management and operation of the lines was placed de facto and de jure under the authority or control of the same allies. The particularly unstable situation on the eastern front from 1916 to the Treaty of Lausanne in July 1923, political and economic rivalries between Greeks and Turks as well as between French and British make this issue, the corollary to the larger “Orient question,” an especially useful observation point regarding power struggles and the issues that shook the shores of the Aegean Sea at that time.
Ένα γαλλικό paper για την ιστορία της επίταξης των σιδηρόδρομων στο Μακεδονικό μέτωπο του 1ου ΠΠ, μαζί με τα Νοεμβριανά καλό θα ήταν να μη ξεχνάμε το πώς μας αντιμετώπιζαν οι σύμμαχοι μας. Εντός και εκτός εισαγωγικών.



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