Takis, Stavroula, Alegra, Pepo, Aris, Eleni, Hector, Angeliki, and Luna live in Thessaloniki during the dark years of the German Occupation. In a city where the German boot tries to humiliate them from one end to the other, they struggle to survive and resist Nazism. They experience events that shape them and often fight to escape the death that surrounds them. And amidst the major historical events, desperate loves unfold, brotherly friendships, acts of self-sacrifice, and returns from debts of the past. And sometimes it is the dice of fate that decide life and death. "Barefoot Heroes" is a historical novel about the Occupation and Resistance, about the barefoot battalion and the extermination of the city's Jews. "Barefoot Heroes" is above all the story of ordinary, everyday people who gained the stature of those who write history with their own actions.