Aristedes Mavrovitis, from Mavrohori, Kastoria, Greece, served as a corporal in the Greek forces that fought the Albanians and Italians in the mountains following the initial invasion of Greece during WWII. The book “The Epic of 1940-1941,? (Kadmos Press, Thessaloniki), a military history that chronicles the days following Oxi Day and the courage of the people of Kastoria and other nearby villages, is based on the diary Mavrovitis kept during the conflict. His journal ends with the occupation of Kastoria by the German army