NO BATTLE WITHOUT HIM: Charalampos Seiradakis, 1886-1970

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Memoir of Lieutenant Colonel Charalampos Seiradakis, detailing how he had been sent to help rebuild the Greek army in exile and support the Allied cause against the Axis. Details how he took up a rifle at the age of eleven, during the Cretan uprising against Ottoman rule, and his career through the Balkan Wars, then to the battlefields of French Lorraine and Gallipoli during the First World War, and then the deserts of North Africa in World War II. Contains 73 black and white photos and 9 black and white maps.