Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit: A Californian in the Balkan Wars

From February to November of 1906 California journalist Albert Sonnichsen made his way through the remnants of the Ottoman Empire observing firsthand a country falling apart. Entrenched among a group of revolutionaries at war with the Greeks and Turks he took special pleasure in seeking out the regions most notorious guerrillas (many of whom he captured in photographs). The prose is as taut and contemporary as the story is riveting-history as lived in the trenches from one of the first embedded journalists. A native of San Francisco ALBERT SONNICHSEN (1878-1931) worked as a foreign reporter for the New York Tribune McClures and the New York Evening Post. He also wrote Ten Months a Captive Among Filipinos.