The Imperialist Campaign in Asia Minor and the competition between capitalist states in the region caused tens of thousands of casualties and uprooted millions of Greeks, Turks, Armenians, and others. Hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in Greece and were subjected to the harshest class exploitation.

This edition, edited by the History Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, contains rich material on known and unknown aspects of this war: It records the imperialist rivalries and the involvement of the Greek and Turkish bourgeoisie, presents the "unmapped" actions of anti-war groups within the bourgeois army, and explores the degree of destabilization of capitalist power.

Useful conclusions are highlighted - for the present and the future - such as:

• The peoples, with the working class as their leading force, should never be sacrificed to the bourgeois class, whether in attack or defense, and should not trust their governments, their aggressive or defensive plans, which are directly or indirectly at the expense of the peoples.
• The peoples must be vigilant and prepared to organize their own self-organized defense and counterattack, a task that belongs as a guiding duty to the Communist Party.