December 1944. The Germans have left, but the civil war begins. Nikos Dendrinos, Antigone, Doctor Karamanis Tramountanas, and the DSE fighter Katerina struggle for their beliefs and to keep their love alive in the madness of war. A chronicle of 1944-1949 with stunning images, some of the memories of the author Kostas Kyriazis, then a war correspondent, that remain etched in the mind. From the December events in Athens and Kalamata, to Thessaly, Pindos, Vitsi, and Grammos, the reader experiences the events. They will meet generals Tsakalotos and Papagos, Velouchiotis, Vafeiadis, Zachariadis, and Belogiannis, Churchill and President Truman, Secretary of State Marshall, and marshals Tito and Stalin in their competitions for Greece. A novel dark as war and bright as love based on true events.