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From the dust jacket:
For Petros, World War II began the day his cricket died; the day Greece went to war with Italy. It seemed almost like a festival, as the people of Athens cheered the lines of marching soldiers, and Petros decided his would be a heroic war, with deeds of valor about which he could tell his own children.
But although a boy of ten could work for the Resistance, the reality of the Fascist Occupation was mainly grim endurance, and Petros' only daring mission was liberating a dog from a German soldier. His regular job for the Underground, secretly painting slogans on walls, didn't seem dramatic, even though the words "Freedom or Death" had a fine ring. But when his beloved friend Drossoula was shot in a demonstration, he realized that "If it had been death, then how could it be freedom?" and for those who died, there would be no liberation.
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