For Whom the Bell Tolls

A few of Hemingway’s novels were inspired by his time covering the Spanish Civil War in 1937 for the North American Newspaper Alliance, including this one. Robert Jordan is an American dynamiter who joins up with antifascist freedom fighters in the hills of Sierra de Guadarrama. They are tasked to blow up a bridge with the understanding they may not survive. While there, he falls for Maria and sifts through changing alliances during El Sordo's last stand.