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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the United States Newspaper Alliance. 3 years later he completed the best novel to emerge from "the great fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a American in the International Brigades mounted on an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of a perfect. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to think in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in Sunlight Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to produce a work on once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and smart.