WOODS H. CHARLES, F.R.G.S., "The Cradle of the War: The Near East and Pan-Germanism / With Foreword by A. Lawrence Lowell (President of Harvard University)", London: John Murray, 1918. 1st Edition, 8o, xxi+360pp. Original red cloth gilt, spine and covers slightly rubbed, clean interior. Complete including frontispiece and all photographic illustrations. Rare study treating mainly the history of the Balkans, from the Young Turcs to the Balkan Wars and the reform of the Balkans, and to World War I. Thorough views on the Greco-Turkish relations and the history of the Balkan states, with a chapter for each country of the Balkans that took part in the WWI war. Also a whole chapter about Thessaloniki. Rare.