William Le Queux, "The Balkan Trouble, or an observer in the Near East", Eveleigh Nash, London, 1912. Original green cloth with title in gilt on cover & spine. Light external toning otherwise a fine copy. William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist, writer, diplomat and traveler. In the current rarely found work, he provides a thorough political view in the Balkans after the evolutions of the treaty of Berlin and just before the break of the first Balkan Wars. He focus on the Balkans states struggle against the Ottoman rule, with insights on the involution of the Germans & Austrians in the area. He has a special interest on the Macedonian Question, analyzing the various & complex interests at stake in Macedonia. Chapters about Montenegro, Northern Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Macedonia. The work was printed at the eve of the Balkan Wars that will change the history of the Balkans.