Round 10: Tossup 9

During this conflict, a blind accordionist mourns Lionheart’s death in the novel Mazurka for Two Dead Men. The narrator of a memoir set during this conflict survives a sniper shot to the neck and laments his inability to save Georges Kopp. A fictional guerilla group led by the palm-reader Pilar fights in this conflict, the subject of many novels by Jose (15[1])(*) Camillo Cela. In a novel set during this conflict, Robert is separated (10[1])from his lover Maria after using grenades to blow up a bridge. Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is set during, for 10 points, what conflict, the subject of Orwell’s memoir (10[1])Homage to Catalonia? ■END■

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