"In 1917, Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris where he renewed his earlier friendships with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Their encouragement and criticism were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style."

For Whom the Bell Tolls  tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American Volunteer attached to a Republican Guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia

This is the Blakistone first edition of 1940.  The dustjacket is clipped inside.  It has edgewear and rip on top  back.  Boards are good with light edgewear and bumping of corners.  Name written in pencil on inside first page. Light tanning of pages.

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