The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was set during which war?
"For Whom the Bell Tolls (film) For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, and Joseph Calleia. The screenwriter Dudley Nichols based his script on the 1940 novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" by American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The film is about an American International Brigades volunteer, Robert Jordan (Cooper), who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. During his desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge to protect Republican forces, Jordan falls in love with a young"
"war. Set in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range between Madrid and Segovia, the action takes place during four days and three nights. ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" became a Book of the Month Club choice, sold half a million copies within months, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and became a literary triumph for Hemingway. Published on 21 October 1940, the first edition print run was 75,000 copies priced at $2.75. The book's title is taken from the metaphysical poet John Donne's series of meditations and prayers on health, pain, and sickness (written while Donne was convalescing from a"
"novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, a novel of the Spanish Civil War which he had witnessed over the previous several years, in the room in the Ambos Mundos, on March 1, 1939. Today, his hotel room, No. 511, is presented as if the author might have left it, and is a small museum in the middle of the establishment, with tours given regularly in the daytime. The corner of the ground floor hotel lobby also has two walls of framed photographs dedicated to Hemingway. In 1987, the hotel underwent some small restoration, with more complete work finalized in 1997"
"For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica song) ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" is a song by American thrash metal band Metallica. It was first released on the group's second album, ""Ride the Lightning"" (1984). In 1985, Elektra Records released it as a promotional single, with both an edited and full-length versions. The song is one of their most popular; by March 2018, it ranked number five on Metallica's live performance count. Several live albums and video albums include the song. The song was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel of the same name about the dishonor of modern warfare and"
"Irving Goff Irving Goff (1900 - 17 May 1989) was a member of the Communist Party USA and the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a unit that volunteered to fight during the Spanish Civil War for the Popular Front. During World War II, he was a member of the American Office of Strategic Services, and was instrumental in setting up guerrilla units working behind enemy lines in North Africa and Italy. His exploits as a guerrilla in Spain are considered to be the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"". Irving Goff's parents, of Jewish origin, emigrated from Odessa,"
"novel ""For Whom The Bell Tolls"". In May 1945, he went to Buenos Aires, where he served as assistant to the Ambassador, Spruille Braden. In October, 1946, after rising to the position of special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State, he resigned from the State Department and entered the United Nations, where he served as an officer in the Social Department of the Refugee Division. He was accused that year by a U.S. Representative, J. Parnell Thomas, of being an agent of the Russian police and a member of the Comintern. In 1951, Senator Joseph McCarthy, drawing on a"
"been the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"". When the book was published in 1940, Goff was critical of the novelist's ignorance of guerrilla operations and the way in which war was treated from ""a romantic adventuristic point of view rather than [as] the grim, practical war that it was"". In a later interview he said: I never saw Ingrid Bergman in all the time I was in the war. If I did, I might still be there [Laughs.] The way Gary Cooper blew that bridge - like blowing a seam in a coal mine. I've"
"A Bell for Adano (novel) A Bell for Adano is a 1944 novel by John Hersey, the winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of an Italian-American officer in Sicily during World War II who wins the respect and admiration of the people of the town of Adano by helping them find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down for rifle barrels. The novel is set during the 1943 Allied occupation of the fictional Italian coastal town of Adano (based on the real city of Licata). The main character,"
"as expected by the regime. An infantile version of wartime literature was a Carlist review """". The Spanish Civil War triggered massive literary response abroad, yet most authors ignore Carlist threads; they are absent either in well-known works like ""The Confidential Agent"" by Graham Greene (1939) and ""L’Espoir"" by André Malraux (1945), or in most minor pieces. Definitely the most famous literary work written during or shortly after the Spanish Civil War, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" of Ernest Hemingway (1940), is only marginally related to the Carlist theme. A minor character lieutenant Paco Berrendo does not resemble a typical"
"1942, Ingrid Bergman was brought in to replace ballerina Vera Zorina as the female lead—a change supported by Cooper and Hemingway. The love scenes between Bergman and Cooper were ""rapturous"" and passionate. Howard Barnes in the ""New York Herald Tribune"" wrote that both actors performed with ""the true stature and authority of stars"". While the film distorted the novel's original political themes and meaning, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" was a critical and commercial success and received ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Cooper's fourth). Due to his age and health, Cooper did not serve in"
"the Spanish Civil War, He based one of his best-known novels, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" on his experiences there. Among its other notable stories was the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, which in 1947 and 1948 researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Edith Ronne, wife of the expedition leader, was a correspondent for the syndicate, posting dispatches from Antarctica for the duration of the expedition. She named a landform there, Cape Wheeler, in honour of her editor. In 1943, Ira Wolfert won an international Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting for his field reports for"
"""A Bell for Adano"" was published in 1944 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. The novel achieved huge popularity and was hailed as a classic war novel. Many believed that the novel was realistic because John Hersey had been a war correspondent in Italy during the war. The book is rich in characterization, and it is recognized as a classic study in leadership. Another possible reason it was so well received was that the novel portrays the American army in a positive light and shows how democracy is inherently superior to Fascism. At the conclusion of World War II,"
"the destruction of the main supply bridge spanning the Albarracín River. The operation may have been the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"". At the end of 1937, Aalto took part in the Battle of Teruel, working behind enemy lines again with Kunslich, Goff and Spanish guerrillas. On May 23, 1938, Aalto, now a lieutenant, led the successful amphibious operation at Carchuna, Motril on the southern coast of Spain, which resulted in the rescue of 300 Republican prisoners held in the Fort of Carchuna. This raid constitutes the only operation of its kind ever undertaken by"
"ineffectiveness of the Spanish Republican Air Force. Colonel Moriones said: ""Our own aircraft carried out bombing attacks from a great height and carelessly...our fighters kept a respectable distance and rarely came down to machine-gun the enemy...enemy aircraft were highly active and extraordinarily effective."". The Segovia offensive only delayed two weeks the Nationalist offensive against Bilbao. The Segovia Offensive is the offensive described in the Ernest Hemingway novel, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"". Segovia Offensive The Segovia Offensive was a Republican diversionary offensive which took place between 31 May and 6 June 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. The main goal"
"Tolls"" in Cuba, Wyoming, and Sun Valley. ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" became a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, sold half a million copies within months, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and as Meyers describes it, ""triumphantly re-established Hemingway's literary reputation"". In January 1941, Martha was sent to China on assignment for ""Collier's"" magazine. Hemingway went with her, sending in dispatches for the newspaper ""PM"", but in general he disliked China. A 2009 book suggests during that period he may have been recruited to work for Soviet intelligence agents under the name ""Agent Argo"". They returned to Cuba before the declaration"
"went to Spain in October itself. He fought until 1938 in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republicans in the International Brigades. Initially, he was commander of the battalion ""Edgar André"", from November 1936 Commander of the XI International Brigade (Thälmann) (He was the model for Hemingway’s General Hans in For Whom the Bell Tolls). In 1937, he became commander of the 17th Division, and in the Battle of the Ebro in 1938 he commanded the 45th Division of the Spanish Republican Army. 1938/1939 he was interned as an enemy alien in France, 1940/1941 in the UK"
"the use of the cape, or ""muleta"", and a sword especially designed for the kill, Pedro in particular transformed bullfighting into ""an art and a skill in its own right, and not simply ... a clownishly macho preamble to the bull's slaughter."" Ronda was heavily affected by the Spanish Civil War, which led to emigration and depopulation. The scene in chapter 10 of Hemingway's ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"", describing the 1936 execution of Fascist sympathisers in a (fictional) village who are thrown off a cliff, is considered to be modeled on actual events of the time in Ronda. Ronda"
"same floor. Initially, Gellhorn resists romantic advances made by the famous author, but during a bombing raid, the two find themselves trapped alone in the same room, and lust overcomes them. They become lovers, and stay in Spain until 1939. Hemingway collaborates with Joris Ivens to produce ""The Spanish Earth"". In 1940 Hemingway divorces his second wife so that he and Gellhorn can be married. He credits her with having inspired him to write the novel, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1940), and dedicates the work to her. Over time, however, Gellhorn becomes more prominent in her own right, leading"
"War for the Oaks War for the Oaks (1987) is a fantasy novel by American writer Emma Bull. The book tells the story of Eddi McCandry, a rock musician who finds herself unwillingly pulled into the supernatural faerie conflict between good and evil. ""War for the Oaks"" is one of the first works in the subgenre of urban fantasy: although it involves supernatural characters, the setting (Minneapolis) is decidedly real-world. Walking home one night through the streets of Minneapolis after quitting her rock band and breaking up with her boyfriend, Eddi McCandry discovers that she is being pursued by a"
"August 1914, the day war began between the British and German Empires. Aubrey and Victor enlist in the 3rd Dukes, as does their family chauffeur Freddie Kemp and Tom Follett, an orphan working as a junior gardener at Ashbourne. Pam joins the Red Cross in London as an ambulance driver. The provenance of the 3rd Dukes is uncertain but the novel has it serving on the Western Front before Christmas 1914. This makes it part of the Territorial Force rather than the better known Kitchener's Army, whose first units did not reach France until early 1915. The Talbot circle includes"
"USA and CSA find themselves on opposite sides of the divide between the Central Powers and the Entente Powers, respectively. The fighting in Europe quickly spreads to North America, where the pro-German United States under President Theodore Roosevelt and 75-year-old General George Armstrong Custer declare war on President Woodrow Wilson's CSA, which are allied with the United Kingdom, France, and Russia. After the Confederate seizure of Washington D.C. and invasion into Pennsylvania, and initial US invasions of Kentucky, Canada, and western Virginia, the conflict bogs down into trench warfare. By the end of novel, in the autumn of 1915, the"
"novel ""Goshawk Squadron"" (1971) by Derek Robinson depicts a British air-force unit in the closing months of World War I and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ""Three Cheers for Me"" (1962) and its sequel ""That's Me in the Middle"" (1973) by Donald Jack, are narrated by fictional Canadian air ace Bart Bandy; both won the Leacock Medal. Canadian novelist Timothy Findley's novel of the conflict ""The Wars"" was published in 1977 and it received his country's top award for literature. ""War Horse"" (1982) by Michael Morpurgo is set in World War I and won the Whitbread Book Award for"
"loosely inspired by his experiences and those of other members of POUM at the hands of Stalinists when the Popular Front began to fight within itself, as were the torture scenes in ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"". Ernest Hemingway's novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" was inspired by his experiences in Spain. George Seldes reported on the war for the ""New York Post"". The third part of Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy, ""A Moment of War"", is also based on his Civil War experiences. Norman Bethune used the opportunity to develop the special skills of battlefield medicine. As a casual visitor, Errol Flynn used"
"No Time for Sergeants No Time for Sergeants is a 1954 best-selling novel by Mac Hyman, which was later adapted into a teleplay on ""The United States Steel Hour"", a popular Broadway play and 1958 motion picture, as well as a 1964 television series. The book chronicles the misadventures of a country bumpkin named Will Stockdale who is drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II and assigned to the United States Army Air Forces. Hyman was in the Army Air Forces during World War II when it was part of the US Army. Ira Levin adapted Hyman's novel"
"The Sound of His Horn The Sound of His Horn is a 1952 dystopian time travel/alternative history novel by the senior British diplomat John William Wall, written under the pseudonym Sarban. The novel has been included in several lists of the greatest fantasy novels of all time. Royal Navy lieutenant Alan Querdillon becomes a POW during the Battle of Crete during World War II. After escaping, and travelling through a forest he runs into a barrier of 'Bohlen Rays', is knocked unconscious and awakens in a Nazi controlled world at least a hundred years after World War II on the"
"1933, the Oxford Union resolved in its Oxford Pledge, ""That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country."" Many war veterans, including US General Smedley Butler, spoke out against wars and war profiteering on their return to civilian life. Veterans were still extremely cynical about the motivations for entering World War I, but many were willing to fight later in the Spanish Civil War, indicating that pacifism was not always the motivation. These trends were depicted in novels such as ""All Quiet on the Western Front"", ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" and ""Johnny Got His Gun""."
"When Eight Bells Toll (film) When Eight Bells Toll is a 1971 action film set in Scotland, based upon Scottish author Alistair MacLean's 1965 novel of the same name. Producer Elliott Kastner planned to produce a string of realistic gritty espionage thrillers to rival the James Bond series, but the film's poor box office receipts ended his plans. British Treasury secret agent Phillip Calvert (Anthony Hopkins) is sent to investigate the hijacking of five cargo ships in the Irish Sea, tracking the latest hijacked ship—the ""Nantesville"", carrying £8 million in gold bullion—to the Scottish Highlands and the sleepy port town"
"War- (1929) and ""Behind the Lines"" (1930). Morris served in the British army during the war. ""A Farewell to Arms"" is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (""Tenente"") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The novel is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of World War I, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of ""A Farewell to Arms"" cemented Hemingway's"
"and they’re just not the enemy, then it becomes very difficult if not impossible to sustain war."" Summer, 1914: At a Berlin opera house the performance is disrupted by the announcement of war. The life and career of the singers Anna Sørensen and Nikolaus Sprink changes, as Nikolaus has to go to war. In Scotland, William urges his younger brother Jonathan to enlist. In Paris, pregnant Madeleine is angry as her husband Audebert departs for war. December 23, 1914: An attack by French and Scottish soldiers on the German line fails. Nikolaus stabs a man and despairs at the violence."
"almost new crew. When he gets the order to take the point of his regiment's advance, he orders the indiscriminate shelling of a German town, due to his nervous exhaustion and then collapses to the floor of his tank. The radio operator then takes over. Warriors For the Working Day Warriors For the Working Day is a novel written by Peter Elstob, published in 1960, with later translations into other languages. The novel is based on events from June 1944, during the Battle of Normandy, to the invasion of Germany in the Spring of 1945. The book describes fighting by"
"Hemingway paid $12,500 for the property. The property was located for Hemingway by Gellhorn, who had come to Cuba to be with Hemingway but decided she did not want to live in the small room he rented at the Hotel Ambos Mundos. The ""Finca"" at the time consisted of with a farmhouse. It was at ""Finca Vigía"" that he wrote much of ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (a novel of the Spanish Civil War which Hemingway had covered as a journalist with Gellhorn in the late 1930s—the novel was started at the Ambos Mundos, and some was also written in"
"the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. War for the Oaks War for the Oaks (1987) is a fantasy novel by American writer Emma Bull. The book tells the story of Eddi McCandry, a rock musician who finds herself unwillingly pulled into the supernatural faerie conflict between good and evil. ""War for the Oaks"" is one of the first works in the subgenre of urban fantasy: although it involves supernatural characters, the setting (Minneapolis) is decidedly real-world. Walking home one night through the streets of Minneapolis after quitting her rock band and breaking up with her boyfriend, Eddi McCandry discovers that she is"
"Warriors For the Working Day Warriors For the Working Day is a novel written by Peter Elstob, published in 1960, with later translations into other languages. The novel is based on events from June 1944, during the Battle of Normandy, to the invasion of Germany in the Spring of 1945. The book describes fighting by the men of a small unit of British tanks during this period, with the focus on one tank crew. The novel is highly realistic, as it is based on Elstob's experience. The title is taken from Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3 (Shakespeare) before the"