Round 11: Tossup 3

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 (-5[1])his inability to save Georges Kopp. A fictional (15[1])guerilla group led by the palm-reader Pilar fights in this conflict, the subject (15[1])of many novels by Jose (*) Camillo Cela. (10[1])In a novel set during this conflict, Robert is separated from his lover Maria (10[2])after using grenades to blow up a bridge. (10[1])Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is set during, for 10 points, what conflict, the subject of Orwell’s memoir Homage to Catalonia? ■END■

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