STUDIA HISTORYCZNE R. LVII, 2014, Z. 4 (228) PL ISSN 0025-1429 ARTICLES AND ANALYSES James N. Tallon (Lewis University) ALBANIA’S LONG WORLD WAR I (1912–1925) Abstract This essay presents a new way of thinking about Albania during the First World War. It offers a broader perspective that shows the “Long War” (1912–1925) that Albania experienced. There- fore, rather than seeing the Balkan Wars (1912–1913), the First World War (1914–1918), and the post-war settlements 1918–1924 as separate events, this essay posits the necessity of placing them together as one continuous conflict. Throughout these years differing ideas about what Alba- nia was to become and how the new political entity would be governed was a constant source of conflict. Key Words: Albania, Balkans, Word War I, Insurgency, Macedonian Front, Civil War. Słowa kluczowe: Albania, Bałkany, I wojna Ğwiatowa, powstanie, front macedoĔski, wojna domowa. Albania’s entry, or more properly, Albania’s slide into the First World War is something that is frequently ignored in the historiography of the war. Few his- tories of the conflict mention Albania at all. Occasionally, operations in Albania are grouped within the larger Macedonian Front. 1 Rarer still, are antecedents to 1 A survey of official histories shows this rather clearly. For France See: Ministère de la Guerre, État-major des armées- Service historique, Les armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre, t. VIII, Vols. 1–3 (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1923–1934), for Britain See: Committee of Impe- rial Defence, Historical Section, Military operations: Macedonia / from the outbreak of war to the spring of 1917, (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1933–1935, for Bulgaria See: Minister- stvo na voĭnata, Bŭlgarskata armiia v Svitovnata voĭna, 1915–1918, t. II, III, IV, V, VIII, IX, (Sofia: Dŭrzhavna pechatnitsa, 1936–1943), Ɇɢɧɢɫɬɟɪɫɬɜɨ ɧɚ ɜɨɣɧɚɬɚ, Ȼɴɥɝɚɪɫɤɚɬɚ ɚɪɦɢя ɜ ɋɜɟɬɨɜɧɚɬɚ ɜɨɣɧɚ 1915–1918, t. II, III, IV, V, VIII, IX [The Bulgarian Army in the First World War 1915–1918], (ɋɨфɢɹ: Дъɪɠɚɜɧɚ ɩɟɱɚɬɧɢɰɚ, 1936–1943). This author has limited ability