![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the story is particular to Greece during the Second World War and its aftermath, it is sadly a story which could have been told many times, with reference to different historical and geographical locations. Though the events took place in Greece during the German occupation, and afterwards during the Greek civil war, it would be dangerous to assume that there aren’t lessons here for us all, of whatever political, religious or cultural orientation. It is an interesting and educational book about Greece in a particular time and place, and it is also a raw story about how we may have to assimilate and process the unendurable, in others, and in oursleves The book’s journey is one that starts from anger and the desire to get vengeance and justice for what happened to his mother, from the perpetrators. The author’s mother was murdered during the Greek Civil War. It is a terrible and true account of what happens when ideology (of any persuasion) subsumes our sense of our own and each other’s humanity. The tragedy is that it is a story which needed to be told at all. A stark account of mans’ inhumanity and the power of love ![]()
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