1944 was a nightmarish year for Thessaloniki: A few months before the departure of the German occupation troops, armed groups of collaborators (Security Battalions) made their noisy appearance on the streets of the city, terrorizing the population under the pretext of "fighting communism." Among them, the group of the "refugee" from Grevena, Antonis Daggoulas, stood out due to its "high performance," a name that indelibly marked the collective memory of its inhabitants in the post-war years. This book sheds light for the first time on the real motives and bloody actions of the "first dragon of Thessaloniki" and confronts the reader with a past dominated by arbitrary and irrational violence. Daggoulas returns to the streets of the city, this time in a book...