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In the Spanish Sierra, an American volunteer prepares to risk his life for a cause larger than himself.

Hemingway’s great novel of the Spanish Civil War.

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting.

In the mountains he finds danger, discipline and the intense comradeship of war. He also meets Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco’s rebels, and whose presence brings love into a world shaped by violence.

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a classic war novel about courage, ideology, loyalty, love and death. Written with Hemingway’s clarity and restraint, it turns a military operation into a profound test of what a person believes, what they will fight for and what they are prepared to lose.

Set during the Spanish Civil War, it remains one of Hemingway’s most powerful works of literary and historical fiction.

One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World

‘A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general’ Sunday Telegraph

‘One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce’ Observer

Publisher Review

One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce * Observer * A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general, and the Spanish civil war in particular * Sunday Telegraph * For Whom the Bell Tolls allowed us to actually see the experience of an irregular struggle, from the political and military point of view...That book became a familiar part of my life. And we always went back to it, consulted it, to find inspiration -- Fidel Castro * Observer * I read as a kid, of course, but it didn't get me like that till I read For Whom the Bell Tolls. I was very taken with that book. I still reread sections, though I'm now reading it not for the thrill of the story but for the technique and craft of it. -- Gene Wilder * Daily Mail * The best book Hemingway has written * New York Times *