For Whom the Bell Tolls

Name: For Whom the Bell Tolls
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by Ernest Hemingway

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Spain, 1937. Robert Jordan, an American volunteer attached to the Republican forces, is sent into the mountains behind Nationalist lines to destroy a bridge during a coming offensive. He joins a guerrilla band divided by fear, political loyalty and the declining authority of its leader, Pablo, and must decide whether the operation remains militarily useful as conditions change around them.

Jordan’s relationship with María, a young survivor of Nationalist violence, gives the mission an urgent private dimension, while Pilar’s account of revolutionary killings exposes brutality within the Republican cause as well. Over three compressed days, Hemingway examines courage, sacrifice, ideological commitment and the cost imposed on civilians and irregular fighters by the Spanish Civil War.