“This book is meant to supplement and we hope complete, at least for the present, the effort that began a few years ago to collect the publications for young people from the founding of the modern Hellenic State to the present. Its purpose is to record the publications addressed to Greek young people between the years 1936-1941.

Two dates – 4 August 1936 and 27 April 1941 – demarcate the period being examined. On the first date, the dictatorship of 4th August was imposed. The second is the date on which the German occupation army entered Athens […].” (Introduction, p. 9)