Introduction

Welcome to ‘In the Years of the War’ – a collection of stories as told by some of the people of the villages of Diafani and Olympos in the north of the Greek island of Karpathos.

These are NOT stories about war itself but, rather, about the day-to-day lives of the local people struggling under foreign occupation between the years 1939 and 1947. They are largely verbatim transcripts of tales recounted by the locals to Manolis Makris, recalling their experiences and the hardships undergone during this time – not omitting some amusing aspects! Manolis published the entire collection, in Greek only, in his book 'ΣΤΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ'.

This e-book contains just a small number of those stories, selected by Manolis Makris’ brother, Giorgos Makris, and translated into English by Giorgos in conjunction with Bob Bowden, a long-time resident of the village of Diafani.

This e-book has been made available via the website tales.click and may be viewed on-line or downloaded as a free e-book in a number of formats:

• EPUB – compliant with the EPUB version 3 standard which can be read on most e-readers including Apple Books and many other apps for iPad/iPhone and Android such as the free Google Play Books app. The Google website books.google.com lets you read your library of e-books using any standard Internet browser on any device.
• MOBI – compatible with all Amazon Kindle e-readers and the free Amazon Kindle apps such as those available for iPad/iPhone, Android and Windows.
• PDF – can be read on any device which has the Adobe Reader installed.

This e-book is complete in itself and can be read on any compatible e-reader without needing to connect to the Internet.

However, to enhance your enjoyment of the e-book when you do have an Internet connection, our click•book technology ensures that the book and its companion website are seamlessly interwoven to provide additional material which is being constantly updated from our further research and from information submitted by readers of the book. Just click or tap on the click•book icon or any of the highlighted hyperlinks.

The companion website also provides links to other sites, such as Wikipedia, when there is related information which may be of interest to you e.g. read about the island of Karpathos.

We hope you enjoy this e-book and the additional material presented on the website.