When versatile graphic designer Dimitris Giannakouros completed Maria Eftimou’s online historian courses, he was thrilled. “This material must be written down in a book,” he thought, and so it was. First, of course, it was necessary to get Euphemia’s approval, which turned out to be extremely simple. The famous historian was very generous to him, giving him the freedom to adapt the lesson, to illustrate it. Giannakouros seized the opportunity, and today we have in our hands the first issue of the eponymous publication entitled “The First World War, the Interwar Period and the Second World War in Europe.”

This illustrated book consists of only 84 pages and includes more than 100 drawings made with great care by Jannakuru’s own hand. The narrative spans a very long historical time, but he manages to perfectly compress it and present it clearly, focusing now on large, then on smaller events. It begins with the formation of political currents before the First World War and ends with the Nuremberg trials, passing through the entire turbulent history of Europe. Reading the book, the reader receives a comprehensive picture of the events that marked the “age of extremes”, and joins the fascinating world of historical knowledge. Without unnecessary comments, but with the essence of the research held by the historian.

The noble goal of Jannakuru is to learn from the mistakes made so as not to repeat them. The artist Eleni Tsotsorou put it clearly on the back cover of the book: “Basically, we are trying to give an explanation for what happened, so that we realize that we are always responsible for our decisions and that our actions have consequences, whether they concern our daily lives or relations and agreements between states that affect global events and life on the planet. Because, as once again, unfortunately, we are discovering that the danger of a general conflict is not far off.