For Whom the Bell Tolls

'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony BurgessHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Hemingway''s great novel of the Spanish Civil War''The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it''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. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco''s rebels. . ''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 **One of the BBC''s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**