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 dyamiting There in the mountains he finds the dangers & the intense comradeship of war & there he discovers Maria a young woman who has escaped from Franco&s rebels Like many of his novels adapted into a major Hollywood film For Whom the bell Tolls is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century by one of the greatest American writers