Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hernández, courtly, old-line army officer who looks like Charles the Fifth, conducts the siege of the Alcázar, treats his enemies chivalrously, is executed when Toledo is captured. On a ridge outside the city the prisoners are shot, three at a time, somersaulting backwards into a ditch, Hernández reflecting in a pain-filled, embarrassed silence that they line up stiffly like people having their pictures taken...
Some characters are called by their real names. Puig was a Barcelona anarchist killed early in the Civil War; Captain Hernández was actually in command at Toledo. Others are thinly disguised: Abel Guidez is called Gardet in the novel; Ramón Sender, leading Spanish novelist, is the original of Manuel...
...Reina; a fire fighter in Madrid atop his ladder, turning his fire hose in a last, hopeless, defiant gesture against an airplane machine-gunning him; Asturian dinamiteros, "the last body of men who can face the machine on equal terms," crawling forward to meet advancing tanks outside Toledo; the crew of a wrecked bomber carried out of the mountains by peasants, the long, winding, anguished procession stretching through vast ravines like a living symbol of the peasants' view of war-such flashes as these make Man's Hope more memorable than its story or its message...
Bert Alfred Canvit, 22, of Hinbrook, New York, the driver, told police he "didn't sec the man until the car bumped against something." Douglas Farmer, 22 of Hinsdale, Illinois, and Erwood G. Edger of Toledo, Ohio, with Canvit at the time, assisted him in taking Duval to a hospital where he died soon after admission. After questioning they continued on their...
...Toledo, Ohio...