"The Tomato War and Theomachy" is a tale of romance and history. Author Edmond Nicolas paints a portrait of life in Rasha, his small village that is located in the mountains of rural Lebanon. From there, he chronicles the yesteryears, tying together the repetitive effects of history and warfare in the Middle East. Nicolas moves through to 1975, when suddenly Lebanon was at war, and the Christian peoples were forced to defend their lives at the outskirts of their villages. They suffered and fought alone for their freedom against the same terror that the world witnessed on 9/11.