As the Andros Odyssey refugees in Eastern Macedonia managed to
survive a series of catastrophes, a much bigger threat appears.
Greece enters into World War II. Anthony leaves his wife and joins
other poorly equipped Greeks at the front. Greece had to fight four
enemies at once: Albania, Italy, Bulgaria and Germany.
After the Greek capitulation, Eastern Macedonia was occupied by
Bulgarians, who wanted to make sure that no Greek claim on that
land persisted after the war. This brought about genocidal
massacres of all Greek population in the area. The Bulgarian
ambitions were also paralleled by Hitler's Final Solution,
regarding the Jewish presence in Greece. As the couple and the
people around them struggle to survive this murderous environment,
they face starvation, greed, language problems, misinformation,
illness, treason, and a variety of other factors. Worse yet,
following the capitulation of Germany, Greece is plagued by a new
catastrophe, a civil war between communist and nationalist factions
that lead to the Cold War. As a result, the Greeks sacrifice
proportionally the highest part (almost 10%) of their population
during this period of War II. It was the earlier part of this noted
sacrifice that gave crucial time to the Russians to muster their
strength for a decisive WWII victory against the Germans.
The end of the civil war finds Anthony and Elisabeth with two
sons, barely able to feed themselves. The oldest son, after
reaching adulthood leaves for Germany in search of work. The
younger one, after finishing high school, and not being able to
afford advanced schooling in Greece leaves for the United States,
to help his great uncle, Pandel Mayo in exchange for college
tuition. He happens to be the author of this book.
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