FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: INTERMEDIATE - IMPORTADO

In 1937, Hemingway was sent to Spain to write about the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance. The war had broken out in 1936, as large landowners, military, the church, and monarchists, supported by German and Italian fascist forces, revolted to overthrow the Republican, pro-democracy government which had replaced the monarchy in 1931. Hemingway sided with the Republicans, and his sympathy for them is obvious in , in which he glorifies three intense and often tragic days in the life of a group of Republican guerrilla fighters.