Memoir of the Bobotes is an extraordinarily vivid account of a forgotten war, fought by peasants under primitive conditions and perhaps a precursor for Balkan wars of more recent memory. This literary tour de force is both a moving account of war and a touching portrait of the naivety of youth, originally written as a journal of the author's own experience - Cary was a Red Cross stretcher-bearer and cook in the Balkan War of 1912 to...