For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 1946

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Hardcover. 1946. Hardcover 471 pages. 1946 at title page; 1940 at copyright page. Beige, size: 8"x 5.5" full cloth boards w/author's stamped signature on cover, black spine titles on red field. Condition Good, light shelf wear, toning to pages, no dust jacket. Tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an anti-fascist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the use of explosives, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. Told primarily through the thoughts and experiences of Robert Jordan, a character inspired by Hemingway's own experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Robert Jordan is an American who travels to Spain to oppose the fascist forces of Generalísimo Francisco Franco. The novel graphically describes the unutterable brutality of civil war.