Nick Lloyd. The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War 1914-1918.

    

        A top English war historian published a book, in which he "missed" nearly half of the theaters of the WWI on the Eastern Front. The Western Front had been the pre-eminent meat grinder and the source of the most exalted war literature on the both sides, but the war was won in the Alps and swamps of the Veneto, the fact that even the competent British historians: Liddell Hart and J. F. C. Fuller had to acknowledge. It were twelve battles of Isonzo and the Greek Front against Bulgaria mainly maintained by the French, which exhausted the manpower and destroyed the economy of the Austria-Hungary. Turkey could not come to the aid of the Central Powers in the Balkans because its army was already scattered at Kars and Sari Kamyush by the forces of the defeated Russian Empire. Lloyd mentions Isonzo Battles but without giving them recognition of their importance for the war effort. 

    Germany, which was quick to fill the Eastern gap after the Brusilov offensive of 1916, simply did not have sufficient strength to keep the borders of Austria safe from the imminent invasion from the South by the Allies. After capitulation of Turkey on October 30, 1918 and Austria's three days later, all the German victories on the Western and the Russian fronts became pointless because Vienna could not hold for long.  

"Victories" of the Austrian and Bulgarian Armies against the Serbs. Austrian postcard of 1914.