"Adventures of a Young Man Adventures of a Young Man is a 1939 novel by John Dos Passos, which eventually became the first in this writer's District of Columbia Trilogy. The novel, which tells of a disillusioned young American radical who fights on the side of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and is killed during the war, is contemporary with Ernest Hemingway's ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"", with its similar theme. Both books are the outcome of the 1937 visit of Dos Passos and Hemingway to Spain during which their friendship broke up in a sharp"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"""maybe the greatest screenplay ever written for the motion-picture medium""; Richard Attenborough's satirical anti-war musical comedy based on Joan Littlewood's play of the same name, ""Oh! What a Lovely War"" (1969); and Spielberg's war drama ""War Horse"" (2011) based on Michael Morpurgo's children's novel of the same name. The Spanish Civil War has attracted directors from different countries. Sam Wood's ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1943), based on Ernest Hemingway's book of the same name, portrays the fated romance between an American played by Gary Cooper and a partisan played by Ingrid Bergman against the backdrop of the civil war."
"about a soldier home from World War I who travels to Northern Michigan to work through his PTSD. The program notes in the musical score the composer explains that he created ""a leitmotif [symbolizing the idea that] one can be healed by the power of nature through exploring isolated outdoor terrains."" The cello represents the main character in this popular Hemingway novel, Robert Jordan. At the conclusion of the movement, the chimes are meant to represent the famous line from the novel: “And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” This movement is"
"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"
"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"
"startling in Spain than this wild and mountainous city."") Hemingway's novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" describes the execution of Nationalist sympathizers early in the Spanish Civil War. The Republicans murder the Nationalists by throwing them from cliffs in an Andalusian village, and Hemingway allegedly based the account on killings that took place in Ronda at the cliffs of ""El Tajo"". Orson Welles said he was inspired by his frequent trips to Spain and Ronda (e.g. his unfinished film about Don Quixote). After he died in 1985, his ashes were buried in a well on the rural property of his"
"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"
"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"
"primary summer residence to Ketchum, Idaho, just outside the newly built resort of Sun Valley, and his winter residence to Cuba. Hemingway, who had been disgusted when a Parisian friend allowed his cats to eat from the table, became enamored of cats in Cuba, keeping dozens of them on the property. Gellhorn inspired him to write his most famous novel, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls,"" which he started in March 1939 and finished in July 1940. It was published in October 1940. Consistent with his pattern of moving around while working on a manuscript, he wrote ""For Whom the Bell"
"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"
"is mentioned in Ernest Hemingway's novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" in chapter 42. He also figures in the first volume of Peter Weiss's novel ""The Aesthetics of Resistance"". André Marty André Marty (6 November 1886 – 23 November 1956) was a leading figure in the French Communist Party (PCF) for nearly thirty years. He was also a member of the National Assembly, with some interruptions, from 1924 to 1955; Secretary of Comintern from 1935 to 1944; and Political Commissar of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1938. Marty was born in Perpignan, France, into"
"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"
"magazines in France and then by ""Life magazine"" and ""Picture Post"". The authenticity of the photo was later questioned, with evidence including other photos from the scene suggesting it was staged. ""Picture Post"", a pioneering photojournalism magazine published in the United Kingdom, had once described then twenty-five year old Capa as ""the greatest war photographer in the world."" Capa accompanied then journalist and author Ernest Hemingway to photograph the war, which Hemingway would later describe in his novel, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1940). ""Life"" magazine published an article about Hemingway and his time in Spain, along with numerous photos"
"studio for Grace and a medical office for Clarence. Hemingway's mother frequently performed in concerts around the village. As an adult, Hemingway professed to hate his mother, although biographer Michael S. Reynolds points out that Hemingway mirrored her energy and enthusiasm. Her insistence that he learn to play the cello became a ""source of conflict"", but he later admitted the music lessons were useful to his writing, as is evident in the ""contrapuntal structure"" of ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"". The family spent summers at Windemere on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey, Michigan. Hemingway's father taught him to hunt, fish, and"
"hired Ernest Hemingway to cover the Spanish Civil War, who inscribed for him a copy of ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"", ""To Jack Wheeler, who gave me the chance to go to war."" When he died on October 13, 1973, in Ridgefield, Connecticut, at the age of 87, his obituary in the ""Ridgefield Press"" described him as one who ""never quit newspapering, permanently, until his death."" John Neville Wheeler John Neville ""Jack"" Wheeler (April 11, 1886 – October 13, 1973) was an American newspaperman, publishing executive, magazine editor, and author. He was born in Yonkers, New York, graduated Columbia University"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (""tenente"") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by the 16th-century English dramatist George Peele. The novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, describes a love affair between the expatriate Henry and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Its publication ensured Hemingway's place as a modern American writer of considerable"
"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"
"the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI), were a particularly militant group. Thousands of people from many countries went to Spain in support of the anti-fascist cause, joining units such as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the British Battalion, the Dabrowski Battalion, the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, the Naftali Botwin Company and the Thälmann Battalion, including Winston Churchill's nephew, Esmond Romilly. Notable anti-fascists who worked internationally against Franco included: George Orwell (who fought in the POUM militia and wrote ""Homage to Catalonia"" about this experience), Ernest Hemingway (a supporter of the International Brigades who wrote ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" about this experience), and radical"
"of the year's top ten pictures and received eleven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Cooper's third). Soon after the publication of Ernest Hemingway's novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"", Paramount paid $150,000 for the film rights with the express intent of casting Cooper in the lead role of Robert Jordan, an American explosives expert who fights alongside the Republican loyalists during the Spanish Civil War. The original director, Cecil B. DeMille, was replaced by Sam Wood who brought in Dudley Nichols for the screenplay. After the start of principal photography in the Sierra Nevada in late"
"Kurowsky, later wrote several stories about it, including ""A Farewell to Arms"". The film's plot starts in Italy during World War I, where the president of the United States sends teams of Red Cross doctors and nurses to boost Italian morale and help care for the wounded. Volunteers drive ambulances and work in the front line canteens. Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell), a 19-year-old boy, becomes an ambulance driver in Italy, although he wishes to become a reporter and writer. In an attempt to fight against the enemy, he ends up with a broken leg, trying to save a companion from"
"time with Hemingway and his fourth wife Mary. Petitclerc had written the screenplay and had begun working on production of the film at the time of his death in 2006. Production on location in Cuba concluded in May 2014. It was the first Hollywood film to be filmed in Cuba since the 1959 revolution, according to ""The Hollywood Reporter."" The filmmakers received permission to film inside Finca Vigía, Hemingway's residence from 1939 to 1960. The government later adapted it as a national museum. Hemingway wrote ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" and ""The Old Man and the Sea"" at Finca Vigía."
"of the campus, adding many new buildings, schools, and departments. These additions included Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the first academic medical center in the world. In 1937 he was admitted as an honorary member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati. In 1941, the Pulitzer Prize fiction jury selected Ernest Hemingway's ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"". The Pulitzer Board initially agreed with that judgment, but Butler, ""ex officio"" head of the Pulitzer board, found the novel offensive and persuaded the board to reverse its determination, so that no novel received the prize that year. During his lifetime, Columbia named its"
"of the tidal channels surrounding Cayo Guillermo. Hudson is presumably mortally wounded in the gun battle, although the ending is slightly ambiguous. During the chase, Hudson stops questioning the deaths of his children. This chapter rings heavily with influences of Hemingway’s earlier work ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"". Hemingway used many of his real life experiences, friends, and relatives, to form his stories and base his characters on. Henry Strater, an American painter, spent the summer with Hemingway fishing on Bimini in 1935. He is shown in the adjacent picture standing next to what was believed to be a 1,000"