The Military History of Modern Greece is above all a reading of patriotism, which clearly presents our adventurous journey to national completion. Avoiding common exaggerations, the historians who sign this three-volume work record not only the heroism and self-sacrifice but also the mistakes that marked the struggles of the Greeks in the 20th century. The 25-year period covered by the first volume of the work 'We the Greeks' begins with a defeat and ends with an unprecedented disaster. Nevertheless, from 1897 to 1922, the area and population of Greece more than doubled. Every inch of land gained on the battlefields and at the negotiating table is soaked with the blood of tens of thousands of known and unknown heroes. Wherever I stand, I remember. One race, one name. Greeks. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]