About us
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The
aim of this site is to provide information to the English-speaking community
about the history of the Bulgarian artillery, and in general of the Bulgarian
Army, until the end of the First World War, collecting and translating
information from Western and Eastern sources. My interest is mainly devoted
to technical and tactical matters, so you will not find descriptions of
battles or military operations, but many data about the materiel and the
equipment employed by the Bulgarian Army and the instructions, directions and
regulations adopted. I
often use information from Bulgarian sites and literature. Since I am not a
professional interpreter and I am not a native speaker of English, my
apologies in advance for any mistakes you can find in my English. I
am trying to mention every source I consulted, but it is not easy. I
collected my information year after year, and sometimes I did not recorded
where I found a note or an image, or simply I lost the reference. As a rule,
for any image or translated/quoted article all references are
given (see Bibliography). However,
there are some gaps. If you think that any of the publications on this site
breaks your rights, please feel free to contact me. I
began to study the history of the Bulgarian Army when I was a boy after
having discovered by chance in my uncle’s library a book about the Balkan War
written by Corrado Zoli,
an Italian journalist, and published in 1912. From then on, I combed through
every book, which I could find in Western libraries, about the history of the
Bulgarian Army, focusing my attention on its artillery. However, this project
could really start only after that Internet allowed me to consult Bulgarian
texts. Therefore I’m infinitely in debt with a lot of people,
that helped me to collect the information that I never could find in a
Western library, first of all to the Bulgarian site Форуми Бойна
Слава,
that not only published a lot of Bulgarian books and articles in its Библиотека, but is also animated by a
group of enthusiasts, who were always so free with assistance and advices. It is almost impossible for me to remember all
them, but I cannot mention at least the most important of them : Nikolay Angelov (my first
Bulgarian mentor), Dimitar Boykov,
Nick Stanev, Albireo,
Imperial, Von Danitz, Parabellum,
Gollum and Vlado Minkov from
Бойна Слава,
Stanislav Yordanov from
Wikipedia StanProg, Ivica Antic and Bane Stancovic
from Serbia, Ralph Lovett, Charlie Clelland, Saskia Bendrich of Historisches Archiv Krupp, Bistra Shokarova of Български книжици,
who was always so kind in providing me rare books, Rumen Evtimov
of Военно издателство
and many many others. Two
little remarks. Unless expressly indicated, all the dates are according the
Julian calendar in use in Every
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