This book is an attempt to fulfill my own duty.
First and foremost, to Christ who kept me alive in the battles.
Second, to my fellow soldiers, some of whom fell on the fields of Honor and others who were captured when their weapon chambers emptied of bullets. These are the ones who are still rotting in the hellholes of Turkish military prisons, completely ignored by the "responsible" representatives of the Greek state. I had to speak for them, who since then cannot speak.
And third, to the truth, which I owe to deliver intact and unaltered to the next generations of Greeks. The baton of our continuity, we must hand it over to them and not leave it thrown on the ground or in the mud.
Sweaty yes..., bloody yes..., but in their hands.