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Fundamental Things
1930s America and the Beginning of the Struggle
1930s America was in the depths of the great worldwide depression. A rich young man, educated in the radical mix of the University of Chicago, joins with a group of young communists who want to abet the struggle for union rights in the emerging labor union movement.
The Strike and Escape to South America
They are in the thick of the physical and economic struggle when Rick shoots several strikebreakers who are beating some unarmed strikers. His group aids him in his escape to South America and then to Berlin. There he becomes involved in the political intrigues that led to World War II.
Involvement in International Intrigue
He accompanies a strange little man to Zurich where he meets "The Fat Man", a worldly wise amoral adventurer who has developed a scheme for running guns for Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in his struggle against Mussolini's fascist dreams of a new Rome. On arrival, Rick sees quickly the futility of the scheme which rapidly unravels.
Escape from Ethiopia and the Spanish Civil War
The group escapes from Ethiopia, scatters, and he goes to Spain. There he joins the International Brigades who are fighting General Franco's fascists. Soviet intrigues, espionage, and betrayals cause him to flee to Paris.
Love and the Oncoming War
There he meets a mysterious young woman and falls in love. His happiness is interrupted by the approaching Nazi Wehrmacht.
