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France declares war on Bulgaria

A hold-to-light postcard of the German and Austro-Hungarian victory (shortlived) over the Russians in the Uzroker Pass in the Carpathians on January 28, 1915. Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff, launched an offensive with three armies on January 23 including the new Austro-Hungarian Seventh Army under General Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin.
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Karpathen
Siegreiche Kämpfe am Uzroker-Paß
28. Januar 1915 
The Carpathians
Victorious fighting at the Uzroker Pass
January 28, 1915
Reverse:
Message dated and field postmarked September 7, 1916, 29th Infantry Division.

A hold-to-light postcard of the German and Austro-Hungarian victory (shortlived) over the Russians in the Uzroker Pass in the Carpathians on January 28, 1915. Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff, launched an offensive with three armies on January 23, including the new Austro-Hungarian Seventh Army under General Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin.

Image text

Karpathen

Siegreiche Kämpfe am Uzroker-Paß

28. Januar 1915



The Carpathians

Victorious fighting at the Uzroker Pass

January 28, 1915



Reverse:

Message dated and field postmarked September 7, 1916, 29th Infantry Division.

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France declares war on Bulgaria after Bulgaria's declaration of war on Serbia on October 14.

1915-10-16

Some books about France declares war on Bulgaria (29)

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France and the Dardenelles in the Great War
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913–1916) Guillaume Apollinaire
Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire Excluding Paris and its Environs; Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker, Fifth Edition with 16 Maps and 55 Plans Karl Baedeker
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 Louis Barthas
The Twelve and Other Poems Alexander Blok
Ambulance No. 10; Personal Letters from the Front Leslie Buswell
Lice Blaise Cendrars
The Astonished Man Blaise Cendrars
A History of Modern France, Volume 3: 1871-1962 Alfred Cobban
Red October: the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Robert V. Daniels
Pyrrhic Victory; French Strategy and Operations in the Great War Robert A. Doughty
Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914, Vol. I, August to October J. E. Edmonds
Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914, Vol. II, October-November J. E. Edmonds
Over the top, by an American soldier who went, Arthur Guy Empey, machine gunner, serving in France Empey
Argonne 1918: The AEF in France Barry Gregory
Your Death Would Be Mine; Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War Martha Hanna
Northern France Insight Guide Northern France Insight Guide
A Minstrel in France Harry Lauder
Northern France and the Paris Region; The Green Guide Michelin Green Guide
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution China Miéville
Falcons of France Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
The Gardeners of Salonika Alan Palmer
Selected Poems Boris Pasternak
Fields of Glory Jean Rouaud
The Balkans, A Laboratory of History William M. Sloane
They Shall Not Pass: The French Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 Ian Sumner
Italy, France And Britain At War H. G. Wells
Fighting France Edith Wharton
With the French Flying Corps Carroll Dana Winslow