Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francisco Franco, again busy over staff maps with his big soft pencil, directed last week the Rightist recapture of Teruel, bloody "Spanish Verdun." Inside this little city, Valentin Gonsalez, a picturesque Leftist Army leader known as El Campesino ("The Peasant"), was busy dynamiting such civic buildings as were not already in ruins, while the 20,000 Leftists holding Teruel clung grimly to their posts...
Poet and scholar, he is also a soldier. The year of his graduation he was driving an ambulance for the French at Verdun, and during the next two years served as a lieutenant under the Stars and Stripes...
EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN - Arnold Zweig-Viking...
Billboards burgeoned with flaming posters of the disasters threatening France from Russia on one side, from Germany on the other. Out of semiretirement, the Right ists lured Marshal Henri Phillippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain, Hero of Verdun, to give his benediction to the Fascist Croix de Feu which, though it had no candidates of its own, backed all the Rightist groups...
...Author, like his patient protagonist Bertin, is a near-sighted Jewish writer,* served on three fronts (southeastern Europe, before Verdun, in Russia) in the German Army. A pre-War writer of national reputation, with many a story and play to his credit, the War that changed him from an intelligent, independent man to a numbered pawn was a crippling straitjacket. Like Bertin, he decided: "More lies will be told about this war than any other international shooting-match. The survivors must tell the truth, and some of those who have a story to tell will survive." In 1933 he left...