ABSTRACT
The unprecedented slaughter produced by trench warfare in World War I provoked an equally unprecedented explosion of mutinies and/or desertions. In this as in other respects, the Greek experience was idiosyncratic. Mutinies and desertions on a massive scale swept the regiments of Old Greece before they even reached the Macedonian front. For them, the refusal to fight appeared legitimated, ironically, as military obedience to their supreme commander King Constantine I.
