21As the spring of 1943 unfolded in the Southern Alps, Yiannis went with Zervas from camp to camp which were scattered all through the mountains, and which billeted their five thousand fighters. Sometimes, he would stay for a day or two to help if an extra surgeon was needed. The Republican soldiers were fighting both the Germans and the Communists, whose compliment was now approaching eighteen thousand. As spring ushered in a hot summer, life didn’t change much in Metsovo. The women continued resupplying the resistance, the men at Stahoulis’ pantopolio continued receiving war news from the BBC’s nightly report. It was during one of those broadcasts that Costas learned that the boat taking his brother Spiros to Italy was sunk by an English submarine with only a few survivors. Costas collap
