"Four Years of Pain, Starvation and Death" is a True story.
By the time that this catastrophic madness ended, Greece had lost some Four hundred thousand of its citizens to wars against two invading armies, to a four-year foreign occupation, to a cruel mass starvation, and finally to a bitter, murderous civil war..
It refers to events that the author personally witnessed and experienced in Athens, Greece, from October 1940 to April 1945. "Four Years of Pain, Starvation and Death" is a True story