An eight-year-old child experiences the dramatic events of 1940-41 and captures them vividly and emotionally in his personal diary. The new book by Kostas Chr. Chatziotis is a valuable and unique testimony of a crucial period in our recent history.

"The pages of this book constitute the testimony that this child recorded during the 182 days of the miracle of the great, unparalleled epic of the Northern Epirus mountains. Much has been written about the epic of '40, which can be considered, in many respects, as the nation's finest moment since the rebirth of the Greek State. And, of course, much more will be written. Because such historical moments, no matter how much they are analyzed, no matter how much they are the subject of the deepest and most detailed research, never lose their relevance and charm. However, no matter how much I searched all the relevant texts I found, they were written by people who experienced the epic as creators: political and military leaders, fighters on the front and the rear, famous and anonymous heroes, who have stories to remember and tell related to the role each of them played during that time. However, none of these numerous testimonies, as far as I know, comes from a child."

The author Kostas Chr. Chatziotis presents to the public, after almost 70 years, an amazing document: the diary he kept as a child during the war of 1940-41. Through the eyes and vivid imagination of an eight-year-old boy, the most important events of that heroic but also tragic period for Greece and the world are depicted with the liveliest colors.