Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit

Sonnichsen left San Francisco in 1905, went to Macedonia, and got caught up in the Balkan Wars. Oddly Quixotic but quintessentially American, he took sides with the revolutionaries fighting against the Turks and the Greeks in the Strumitza Mountains on the Bulgarian border. Horror abounds, but also humor: The revolutionaries abduct a young woman, hoping her ransom will fund their war, but she and her pregnant companion make their lives miserable.