This book offers a unique and memorable account of the experience of the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

Written with immediacy and vividness, with no intention to impress (the author states from the outset that he is not a hero), the pages reveal hunger, hardships, strategic mistakes, official announcements, the atmosphere of that time, but, above all, how the protagonist himself experienced that dramatic period, as an ordinary soldier who, despite his encounters with death, ultimately managed to escape the nightmare of destruction and return to his homeland.

His text vividly conveys the atmosphere of those days. His narrative of the tormenting days of the disordered retreat of the Greek army from Afyon Karahisar still carries the scent of daily encounters with death, deprivation, and suffering. With characteristic immediacy, his pen unfolds on paper his charged emotional world and composes the days and nights of this dreadful period, which remains an integral part of modern Greek destiny to this day.