Hemingway”s great novel of the Spanish Civil War ”The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it” High 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 Franco”s rebels… ”A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general”- Sunday Telegraph ”One of the greatest novels which our troubled age will produce”- Observer