Firstly, I must indicate that I have not read this edition. I read For Whom The Bell Tolls by Penguin Books, printed in the 1950s and I consider myself lucky for this. The book was banned in Turkiye by the government in 1973 due to the high risk of propaganda against the unwanted government. In the same year, 11 publishers and 8 booksellers were sentenced to prison because of selling and publishing the book.
It starts with the poem of John Donne;
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
Ernest Hemingway successfully shows the fierceness of the battle through the book and addresses the Spanish Civil War via the protagonist, Robert Jordan who is an American volunteer for the exploding the tactical bridge in the war. Upon meeting Maria, Jordan explores that one can feel every feeling, especially love during the hardest times and may find time to care for each other.
In some chapters, the reader could sense the unlimited brutalism of fascism. Through Donne's poem, Hemingway refers back to 'for whom the bell tolls' and to 'no man is an island' to demonstrate and examine his feelings of solidarity with the allied groups fighting the fascists.
The reader can also realize some of the actual figures that played a role in the Spanish Civil War are referred to in the book too, including André Marty, Robert Hale Merriman, and Indalecio Prieto who are mentioned in the chapters.
The book deserves to be accepted as Ernest Hemingway's