Word: arganda
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...book is history in novel form-the story of the first great military action in the war against fascism of which the Battle of Britain is the latest. It is built up around the battles that the Internationals fought to save Madrid-University City, Boadilla del Monte, the Arganda Bridge, Guadalajara where they routed Mussolini's troops. It is written in great chunks in which the rabble armies struggle to advance a mile, are thrown back ten, somehow hold on; in which their little human components hope, despair, suffer, exult, sometimes betray, always fight to stay alive, to kill...
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