![]() Mandras leaves to join the war effort and Dr. ![]() Metaxas refuses to allow the Italians invade, but they invade anyway. In the fall he sends his delegate Grazzi to deliver an ultimatum to Metaxas, the prime minister of Greece. He fabricates border incidents and in August, he torpedoes a Greek ship. It's 1940 and Mussolini is preparing to invade Greece. Iannis also adopts a pine marten that the child Lemoni names Psipsina. Though they used to fight about politics, as the war moves towards Greece, the three band together for the sake of their country. Iannis spends most of his time at the kapheneia with his friends Stamatis and Kokolios, who are royalist and communist respectively. Iannis refuses to provide a dowry, suggests Mandras is too uneducated to appreciate Pelagia, and counsels that they should wait to get married until after the war. Gerasimos, but Pelagia is unhappy about it. They get engaged in August on the feast day of St. However, he finds he cannot do so without getting angry about the numerous Greek conquests, so he amends his title to read "A Personal History of Cephalonia." In the village, his daughter Pelagia falls in love with a young fisherman named Mandras. ![]() ![]() Iannis attempts to write an impartial history of his island, Cephalonia. ![]()
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