Oh have a look at this baby. I’m currently writing a novella called “Enemy at the Gate” which centers on Zoe’s first introduction to the Greek Resistance and a decisive battle that created the Greek Resistance into mighty force. This is JUST before SS Major Hans Muller and his daughter Eva are assigned to Larissa (and where In the Blood of the Greeks novel begins)
It’s 1941 and the shadow of tyranny has laid claim to Zoe Lambros’ Greek homeland. The only way to freedom
is to resist. Zoe is a determined thirteen-year-old who wishes to join in the fight to free Greece from occupation, and she gets that chance when she joins the Greek Liberation Army in a clandestine operation that sets in motion an explosive confrontation between the occupying Italians and the birth of the mighty Greek Resistance. For Zoe, there is no turning back, because what’s left is either freedom or death.
It’s part of a multi-author World War 2 Resistance Anthology called “The Darkest Hour”. I did a little graphic for my end of the storytelling.
Hard to watch documentary but a must watch. We must NEVER let this happen again.
A documentary from the book by Photini Tomai (Constantopoulou)
“Greeks in Auschwitz-Birkenau” HSA – Holocaust Social Archive
Auschwitz Birkenau - The Revolt of the Greek JewsA documentary from the book by Photini Tomai (Constantopoulou)"Greeks in Auschwitz-Birkenau"HSA - Holocaust Social Archive
Combine a fiery teenager and a cantankerous octogenarian and stir to produce an unlikely friendship for the ages.
Zoe Lambros meets Mabel Andrews, a mercurial, cantankerous World War I Australian nurse. Zoe’s introduction to the fiery octogenarian is an explosive mix of sound and fury. Neither woman wants to give ground and they are determined to be proven right. For Zoe, actions speak louder than words and Mabel finds a kindred spirit that leads to an unlikely friendship. Together the two women forge a close bond that will change their lives forever.
Timeframe: 1948 (Between Where Shadows Linger and Hidden Truths – Standalone novel in the Eva and Zoe series. You do not have to read the previous novels prior to this novel)
A MOMENT IN TIME
By: Ryan Armstrong, Mary D. Brooks, M.L. Gardner and Amanda Page
Genre: Historical Fiction, Urban Fantasy
Time: 1917
Place: Athens, Greece
Crossroads is the first short featuring Stella and Tessa, the characters that first appeared in my Intertwined Souls Series (Starting with Book 3: Hidden Truths).
It’s the summer of 1917 in Athens, Greece, and while the city swelters, the patients of St Gregori’s Home for the Infirm have never seen anyone like Doctor Stella Nikas–a joyous personality that defies the abject sorrow of her surroundings and brings an explosion of color and light into the patients’ lives. Tessa Mitsos, a gifted artist plagued with strange dreams of the future, is also at St Gregori’s and her only hope of stopping the visions is a radical surgery.
Stella makes a decision that will forever change not only her life, but that of Tessa Mitsos as well – beyond St Gregori’s Gates.
Last month I watched the series “Band of Brothers” which was set during WW2. Episode 9 had one of the most powerful scenes I have ever seen in a tv show. The Americans liberate Dachau concentration camp.
The US Holocaust Museum has posted Letters from Liberators On May 3, 1945, US soldier Elmer Joachim recorded his reactions to visiting Dachau after liberation. The letters have been scanned and you can view below the video. POWERFUL. MOVING.
Watch:
In April and May 1945, Allied forces liberated thousands of prisoners from Nazi concentration camps. Soldiers who had read and heard reports of Nazi crimes now confronted the evidence first hand. Shocked, angered, and horrified by what they saw, they recorded their observations in reports to their superiors and letters home to loved ones so as to ensure that others would know the truth about what they had seen. Historic film footage, artifacts from our collections, and oral histories provide further documentation of liberators’ experiences at the end of World War II.
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