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“THERE’S a valley in Spain called Jarama …” begins the well-known song, commemorating the doughty fighters of the XV International Brigade, who threw themselves against the far better equipped fascist ...

Patrick McKechnie, a 13-year-old with a Northern Irish father and a Spanish mother, is wandering with his schoolmates through a battlefield of the Spanish civil war in the Jarama valley, near Madrid.