"You have won the war as fighters and I lost it as a leader. I asked you to resist for 12 hours, instead you resisted for 72 long hours"
– Samir Geagea

This book by our LF comrade Paul Andari, is a testimony of the tragic war that happened during the year 1983 between the Druze and the Christians. At first, the author gives us a historical background of the Druze-Christian co-habitation in the mountains and the continuous bickering between the two groups, and how it led to the Mountain war.

The Author then focuses on how Hakim took over the Mountain (while Christian leaders were concerned with other issues unable to take any decisions) and acted as a true leader, restructuring, organizing, boosting the morals of the fighters, giving strict and wise orders, and most of all resisting by all means to defend the Christians and disallowing the Druze of committing genocide against the Christians.

The author makes us live his experience with Hakim and the rest of the fighters. HE shows us the courage and heroism of those LF fighters that gave up their lives to preserve the Christian regions and save the Christians souls and become martyrs of our Sacred Cause (his brother was among the martyrs too).

Finally, the author shows us the unwise, weak and childish decisions taken by the other Christian leaders at that time, mainly the president Amine Gemayel that was concerned on eliminating the LF and a re-election for himself instead of worrying about the Christian community that was being attacked brutally by Druze who were supported by the Syrians and Palestinians and armed mainly by Israelis.

"2inna lil tarikhi tarikhoun machhoud, fa houwa youmhilou wa la youhmil, yaghotto el tarfa 2a7yanan lakinnahou la yanssa, yataghada fi ba3ed el waket lakinnahou la yar7am"

Our Cause will prevail.