Between War and Peace. The Preserved Heritage of the Bulgarian Army

Contents:

- Armed, on Course for Freedom:

Bread or Lead

The Haidouk Band

Forsake n , Downtrodden, Unloved underForeign Colours

Bulgarians in the Russo-Turkish Wars

Bulgarians in the Strugles of their Balkan Neighbours

Our Freedom Depends on Us

Georgi Rakovski – First Ideologist of the National Liberation Movement

For a Pure and Sacred Republic

Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee

The Apostle of Freedom and the Internal Revolutionary Organisation

Turkey Will Fall

The Uprising

The Colours of Rebellion

The International Response

The Liberation

The Declaration of War

The Bulgarian Volunteer Corps

Flags of the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps

The Fighters for Stara Zagora, Shipka and Pleven

Shipka – Sheynovo

The Volunteers

The San Stefano and Berlin Treaties

- The Beginning

Between Duty and Gratitude

The Bulgarian Army in Russsia’s Plans

The First Prince

The First Decorations

The Palace

The Mausoleum of Prince Aleksander I

The Standing Army

From Battalions to Regiments

- Unity Makes Strength

The Army of the Other Bulgaria

Unification

The Officers and the Unification

The Volunteer Datachments

The Prince Acknowledges the Unification

Welded by the Blood and Lead

March Manoeuvers

The Volunteers

Slivnitsa

The Defence of Vidin

Continue to Nish and You Will Face Austrian Troops

- On the Path of Independence

Coup and Counter-coup

The Revolts

The First Tsar

Modernization of the Bulgarian Army

The Army in the Struggles of Macedonia and Thrace

Thus Rose Bulgaria to Kingdom

The International Recognition of Independence

- The Blaze in the Balkans

In a Coalition against the Empire

Mobilization

Advance! Bayonet Charge!

Liberation of the Rhodopes Mountains

First Bulgarian Victory at Sea

Defence of Catalca, Bulair and Sharkoy

The Taking of Adrianople

Allies – Bandits

Criminal Senselessness

Salonika

None of our Dreams Saw the Light of Day

- The Great War

Order Arms

Mobilization

The Defeat of Serbia

Russian Bombings

The Southern Front before Trenches

First Aerial Victory

The War with Romania

Liberation of South Dobrudzha

The Offensive in North Dobrudzha

Attrition Warfare

Positional Warfare of the Southern Front

The Doiran Epopee

The Propaganda War

The Little Person in the Great War

The Breaktrough of Dobro Pole and the Downfall

The Salonika Armistice

The New Monarch

- The Post-War Crisis

In the Fetters of Nevilly

The Army’s Come-Back to Politics

Renewal of the Army

Aspects of the State Cultural Policy

The Salonika Agreement

- Joining Two Coalitions

Neutrality

Restitution of the South Dobrudzha

In the Tripartite Pact

The New Territories

The Occupation Corps

The Symbolic War

The Underage Tsar in the Shadow of Two Regencies

The Coup

Bulgaria – the Unrecognized Ally

The War on Germany

Paris Peace Treaty

- East of the Iron Curtain

Repressions

The People’s Court and the Army

The Exiled Military

The Bulgarian Company in NATO

A Great Party Leads Our Victorious Society

Deputy-Commanders Institute

Changeover

The New Officers

The New Symbols

Member of the Warsaw Pact

Prague, 1968

Rearmament

New Types of Force

Bulgaria – a Space Nation

Exercises

The Military Industrial Complex

- The Army Today

Military Reforms before 2004

The New Army Symbolism

Part of the Euro-Atlantic Defence Structures

Exercises and Missions

Abbreviations