After the bestseller "Tearful Minor Asia, 1919-1922: The Years that Shook Greece," which won the State Prize, and the book "In the Name of Refugees, From the Tearful Christmas of 1922 to the Unmonarchical Democracy of 1924," Vasilis I. Janakaris completes the trilogy with the book "To Death!, The Trial and Execution of the Six Through the 'Records,' the Side Notes, and the 'Small Print' of the Newspapers."

In May 1919, Greece would attempt to fulfill a dream that had nurtured generations of Greeks since the time of the Fall of Constantinople. To make the four hundred bells of Hagia Sophia ring, to resurrect the marble king from a slumber of centuries, to drive the Turks up to the "Red Apple." A dream that Greece now seems to be reaching, as countless thousands of Minor Asians cry with joy, make the sign of the cross, and embrace, as they see the Greek soldiers disembark on the quay of Smyrna on a rainy dawn on May 2, 1919.

The dream of a Great Idea, whose conclusion after three and a half years will not be the joyful ringing of Hagia Sophia's bells but the gunfire from thirty-one Mannlicher rifles at Goudi... With his well-known torrential speech, Vasilis I. Janakaris sheds light on this dark page of modern Greek history, drawing on sources from the time. The book is accompanied by archival photographic material.