In 1918 he joined the Red Cross and experienced the horrors of World War I on the Italian Front where he was badly wounded. Excelling in English at school, he became a junior reporter for the Kansas City Star. Born in Chicago, he was grew up in the prosperous suburb of Oak Park. Įrnest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American writer of novels and short stories. Robert Jordan suspects that Pablo may betray or sabotage the mission. Along the way, they encounter Pablo, the leader of the camp, who greets Robert Jordan with hostility and opposes the bridge operation because he believes it endangers the guerrilleros’ safety. The Republican command has assigned Robert Jordan the dangerous and difficult task of blowing up a Fascist-controlled bridge as part of a larger Republican offensive.Ī peasant named Anselmo guides Robert Jordan to the guerrilla camp, which is hidden in a cave. An American man named Robert Jordan, who has left the United States to enlist on the Republican side in the war, travels behind enemy lines to work with Spanish guerrilla fighters, or guerrilleros, hiding in the mountains. Fiction, war, film/TV adaptation, Spanish Civil Warįor Whom The Bell Tolls opens in May 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War.
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