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This book refers to the conventional war in Spain as "For Whom The Bell Tolls" Hemingway, "The Hope" Malraux this mess brutalizing and even I am sorry to say, however to a lesser extent "Hommage to Catalonia "Orwell, shop accessories.
Soldiers of Salamis is Stendhal, efficient, not a word too much, the author knows what death means and therefore what is life; he did not waste his time writing something other than a jewel that keeps about itself as an indispensable tool and patinated and we keep in mind as an air passo doble who persists. Finally, like all very very good books, he grows you, it makes you go forward.
This man knows how to use a typewriter and his brain. It is rare to combine these two qualities.