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**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT**

‘The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess’ Anthony Burgess

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 dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco’s rebels…

**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**