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,
till 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 a lot of 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'm not a professional
interpreter and I’m not a native speaker of English, my apologies in advance
for any mistakes you can find in my English. I'm 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). But 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. But 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 and Gollum 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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