Book Specifications
0-9709443-8-1,
978-0-9709443-8-2,
Perfect Bound Soft Cover,
194 pages,
6.5 x 9.25,
$15.95 |
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Memoirs from the Front is a passionate story in which a woman becomes the sole reason of a man’s survival. Written in an uncomplicated style that makes it appealing to both a reader who is very sophisticated and to one who just wants a page turner.
A true, but timeless, tender story of love, separation and family ties threatened and strengthened by war. Although the story of this book takes place during World War II, its immutable truths and themes are as pertinent now as they were for the ancient Greek soldiers and those now fighting in Iraq. At the same time it untangles the little known story of the Greek-Italian war, its impact on the overall course of WWII and Hitler’s famous five week delay of the invasion into Russia.
The book is beautifully illustrated with rare photographs, beautiful historic maps, cartoons and other archivalia from World War II, Hitler and Mussolini. It is enhanced with an abridged history of the Greek-Italian and Greek-German wars and their after affects. Those wars are considered by many as the most important military contributions of Greece in the 20th century.
For the classic’s scholar, this book is a modern day Xenophon Anabasis.
From the Authors
Theodore “Phaedia” Electris was born and educated in a thriving Greek community in Batum, Russia. Due to the political situation in Russia created by the Russian Revolution there, he emigrated to Athens, Greece where he studied medicine. After graduation and military service he established his practice as an internist in Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki.
In July 1940 he married Chrisi “Chrysoula” Arvanitidou Pappidou. Two months later he was mobilized as a civilian doctor to serve at the front lines of the Greek-Italian war for its duration.
From the day he departed Thessaloniki and during the six months of war, until the day he returned home, he diligently kept a diary and a photographic archive.
He wrote hundreds of letters to family and friends, but mostly to his beloved wife. He hoped to publish the diary after the war, but circumstances did not permit it; he had to address the huge needs of his patients in post WWII Thessaloniki. He died in 1958 of an illness he contracted during the war.
After Chrysoula’s death in 1997, their daughter Eleni (Helen) Electrie-Lindsay published his diary privately for family and friends in Greece. However, after settling her mother’s estate she found additional letters and material preserved by her mother. After much encouragement from friends, she translated the diary and some of the letters. She combined them with a brief history of the Greek-Italian and Greek-German wars, the Nazi occupation and a brief analysis of their consequences and their after-affects on modern day Greece.
Helen Electrie-Lindsay resides in Minnesota.
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