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For Whom The Bell Tolls is a war novel by Ernest Hemingway. A young man is tasked with foiling an enemy’s movement route, but he must choose between carrying out his duty and his feelings for a Spanish woman. Summary of the Book Robert Jordan knew he could not back down from his mission. He was the best with dynamite, experienced and able. However, to carry out this mission, he’d have to leave Maria. She had already experienced enough pain in her life, and he had no intention of losing her. However, without his expertise, the mission to destroy a bridge that would cripple the enemy’s movement route would fail. A part of the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the Spanish Mountains at the height of the Spanish Civil War, Robert Jordan knew he had to choose between duty and love. About Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and journalist. He is best remembered for: A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway was a World War I veteran, where he enlisted with the World War I ambulance drivers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. The above title was adapted into a film in 1943 by Sam Wood starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress, but won only one. The book was also adapted in the eponymous Metallica song in their second album, Ride the Lightning.