A timely book that sheds light on today’s problems with the truth of yesterday, guiding thought from the Asia Minor catastrophe to the destruction of Cyprus and the crisis in the Aegean.

Using documents and personal testimonies from people who played a larger or smaller role in the events that brought Greece to the brink of disaster in 1922, the author reveals truths more useful than ever: the true causes of the catastrophe, the role of the allies, as well as the political forces in Greece, and the sources of tension in Greek-Turkish relations.

Reminding us of the warning inscribed after the war on the door of a Hitlerite camp - "Those who forget the past are condemned to relive it" - Dido Soulioti emphasizes in her preface how silence, falsification, and distortion covered the causes of the Asia Minor catastrophe, and thus "passion never became wisdom."