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One of these is the American captain who organize s the guerrilla movement in Leyte during the Second World War, falls in love with Txomin's beautiful cousin. Their story is the basis of the book, and later the movie, An American Guerilla in the Philippines, starring Tyrone Power. The most compelling portrait in the book is that of the author's father, a man of overwhelming integrity, a hero to his son and to the reader. Txomin's father, Dionisio Aberasturi, a Basque from Vizcaya, Spain, at the hub of this memoir, is defined by his unshakable uprightness, all the more remarkable because they are not fictional. Two sisters of the author are at a boarding school in Spain when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. After the war, the author works hard alongside his father until he goes off to college. While he is away, his father dies in a tragic accident and Txomin returns for the funeral. The absence of his father is as palpable as his presence always was. 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