The Balkan wars: 1912–13, was a series of articles published by Leon Trotsky in the Russian newspaper “Kievskaja mysl” (Russian: Киевская мысль) during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913. In the USSR, Trotsky's war correspondence was republished as the sixth volume of his collected works under the title “The Balkans and the Balkan War” (Russian: Балканы и Балканская война, 1926). The English translation of the book appeared in 1980; it was reissued as an important source on the history of the Balkan Peninsula in 1993 during the Yugoslav wars.

• Leon Trotsky, George Weissman (1980). The Balkan wars, 1912–1913 : the war correspondence of Leon Trotsky. New York; Sydney: Monad Press; Pathfinder Press, 1980. ISBN 0-913460-67-2. — 524 p.