Title

The Great Serbian Retreat', (1919).

Caption

'The Great Serbian Retreat', (1919). The Serbian army's 1915 retreat through the mountains of Albania during the First World War: 'The crossing of the great plain of Kossovo was perhaps the most tragic incident in the great retreat. Snow lay thick on the ground, rivers were in flood, and the fugitive panic-stricken peasantry fled their country with...the enemy in close pursuit.' Some 240,000 died from cold, starvation, disease, and attacks by Albanian tribesmen. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. VI, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]

Date

1919

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F15_290

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,4Mb (2,3Mb) / 18,3in x 12,8in / 5484 x 3848 (300dpi)

Keywords

photograph weather season people male man men cold snow guy column pillar pillars war retreat Armed Forces century soldiers soldier first world war Albania concept troops B&W MONOCHROME Army warfare wintry World War I WWI black & white black and white B W World War One 1910s 20th century retreating The Print Collector 1st World War Serbian TGN WW1 winter photograph Unknown Knight Caxton Publishing Company William Stanley Macbean Knight William Stanley Macbean W. Stanley Macbean Knight W Stanley Macbean Knight W. Stanley Macbean W Stanley Macbean W. S. M. W. S. M. Knight Caxton Pulishing Company Lim