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Soldiers of Salamis - Javier Cercas Science Fiction and Fantasy 1987: When NYPL librarian andThe International Bestseller of the Spanish Civil War Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeIn the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is the writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, and can hear a search party and their dogs hunting him down. The branches move and he finds himself looking into the eyes of a