Thomas Dworzak Adriatic coast, Albania. Serb forces had managed to repulse several attacks by Austria-Hungary at the outbreak of the war but the combined invasion of Serbia by Austro-Hungarian, German and Bulgari
(...) an forces in October 1915 threatened the Serbian army with encirclement. The Serbian commander, Field Marshal Radomir Putnik, ordered a retreat over the Albanian mountains to the Adriatic coast. Already weakened by poor supplies and a typhus epidemic, an estimated 240,000 Serbs are thought to have died trying to cross the mountains, succumbing to cold, hunger, disease and attacks by Albanian irregulars exacting revenge for Serbian atrocities carried out against Albanians after the Balkan wars of 1912-13. The retreat came to be known as the "Albanska Golgota", or "Albanian Golgotha". French warships evacuated the remaining 125,000 soldiers to the neighbouring Greek island of Corfu. Albania. 6/2014 © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
