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- Title: They Were Patriots All
- Author : Chris Kogias
- Release Date : January 05, 2020
- Genre: Historical,Books,Fiction & Literature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3824 KB
Description
is is the story of Kapitanios Alexis Roussos, the charismatic, ruthless and driven
leader of a band of partisans operating in a mountainous region of northern Greek
Macedonia, during the invasion and occupation of Greece by Italian, German, and
Bulgarian armies following the outbreak of the Second World War.
The story also follows the exploits of some of Alexis’s comrades in arms. There
is Georgios Lambridis, the son of a wealthy and prominent Athenian family and
right-hand man to Alexis, who like him, wants not only to drive the hated invaders
out of Greece, but also to overthrow the “rotten” and unfair capitalistic system that
is destroying Greece.
Anestis Mavridis and his younger brother, Vasili, the sons of the charismatic papa
Grigorious, priest of the small village of Prosotsani, are also very loyal followers of
Alexis. As is Stavros Vardakis, an old war veteran who embarked on a life of violence
and bloodshed after witnessing as a young boy the massacre of his whole family and
village by irregular Bulgarian forces, during the violent struggles leading up to the
emergence of the Greek State of Macedonia just before the outbreak of the Balkan
Wars.
There is also the young and very beautiful Irini Apostolou, who has a dark secret
that haunts her and also Vasili, a former school friend, and which almost destroys
them both. She too later joins Alexis’s band in the mountains and helps him and
his men fight the German and Bulgarian forces, and also the right wing forces of
Costas Grivas, the fanatic and psychotic hater of Alexis, Georgios and Anestis, who
is the leader of a Security Battalion which fights for the Germans. And when the
invaders are defeated and Greece is soon plunged into the throes of a catastrophic
civil war that is tearing the country apart, he sets out on his own personal vandetta
to destroy these men and all they stand for.
Katerina Donatelis, another young female character in this story, nurses the young
wounded Vasili back to health when he is wounded by Bulgarian forces near her
village. She also helps him to deal with his very debilitating psychological trauma,
and teaches him the meaning of true love.
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