It sucked in Iran, it sucked in Afghanistan, it sucked big time in Sierra Leone, and in this book we learn just how much it sucked in Greece.Įleni Gatzoyiannis was a Greek mother of five who lived in an obscure mountain village near the Albanian border. In other words, civil war sucks, and we’ve seen it suck in just about every corner of the globe.
Without that feeling of national unity that would otherwise pervade a conflict against a foreign entity, civil war becomes nothing more than a vehicle for senseless killing. The disjointed sense of loyalty associated with these internal struggles only fuels the chaos. Civil war is the nastiest kind of war, a war in which one’s own brethren becomes his enemies.
Although there is no shortage of books that describe the personal and familial turmoil that results from civil war, Eleni has to be among the most devastating accounts ever written.
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