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Recreates, in 14 short stories, the legendary Costa Rican national campaign against the much-fictionalized and hated American mercenary William Walker. Altamiranos enhancement of peasant heroism is a result of both patriotism and literary treatment. The protagonists are the people, and an integral part of the book is the sense of Central American unity against the invader –Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.