To Frances Gordon, with love
My special thanks go to Alice Fisher, whose assistance in helping me research this novel was invaluable.
"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
"The dead do not need to rise."
"They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never
be conquered for the earth endures forever, it will outlive
all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably,
and no men entered earth more honorably than those who died
in Spain, have already achieved immortality."
Ernest Hemingway