Hemingways great novel of the Spanish Civil War\n\nThe world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it\n\nHigh 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 Francos rebels...\n\nA sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general Sunday Telegraph\n\nOne of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce Observer\n\n **One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**