For Whom the Bell tolls is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1948. The novel tells the story of Robert Gordon, a young American member of the International Brigades accompanying a communist war gang during the Spanish Civil War. Robert Gordon was appointed as an expert in the use of explosives to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Sakoubia. This novel is widely regarded as one of Hemingway's greatest works, along with Sunrise, The Old Man, the Sea, and Farewell to Arms.
