<P> For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940 . It tells the story of Robert Jordan , a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War . As a dynamiter , he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia . </P>
who wrote the poem for whom the bell tolls
Ernest Hemingway