Eleni by Nicholas Gage

Author:Nicholas Gage [Gage, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-76064-7
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

The government soldiers never advanced beyond the lower boundary of the Haidis property. By 2 A.M. on March 3, the tide of battle had turned and the government troops were in retreat.

During the same night, the commandos lost the hill of Skitari. When darkness fell, Lieutenant Vorias discovered that he had only thirteen of his eighty-five men left; the rest had been killed, wounded or sent away carrying wounded comrades. When he asked for reinforcements from the LOK companies fighting lower down the hill, he learned that they had gone. After digging a trench in the snow to bury the dead, Vorias and his surviving men rolled down the steep face of the height until they reached a ravine and escaped to the southeast. Operation Pergamos had failed.

In the morning, as the villagers of Lia ventured out into the first daylight, the stink of gunpowder hung in the air and they saw the mountainside below their village littered with bodies and the refuse of battle. The soldiers had been driven all the way down to the rise of St. Marina in the foothills, where they were still being pounded by the guerrilla artillery.

The all-clear came at dawn as the guerrillas walked through the village shouting over bull horns that the fascists had been triumphantly driven back in retreat and that everyone could return to their homes. Exhausted, the Gatzoyiannis family retraced their steps to the Haidis house. The children still hoped that the soldiers might make another advance, but Eleni suspected that their last chance at escape had slipped through their grasp.

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