For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

We’ll be killed but we’ll blow the bridge.

But I must go now to Navacerrada

South of Segovia and 32 miles north west of Madrid. All the landscape we drove through on the Gate 1 trip in June 2025.

“And the exploder and the detonators?”

“I threw them down the gorge into the river,”

“But I have thought of a way to detonate us...

The best thing you can do for her is to do the job well and fast and get out,

Gómez had braked the motorcycle like a dirt-track racer

the ignorant and the cynical.

they dropped down the steep wooded hillside to the point above the bridge where Robert Jordan and Anselmo had watched the first day.

Robert Jordan lay on the pine-needle floor of the forest

He had never been on a motorcycle before

Now Karkov said,

have you heard anything of any message coming through for Golz from one of our partizan groups operating toward Segovia?

an American comrade there named Jordan

He would have sent a message through to Golz.”

Just give me the dispatch, Comrade Marty. It has been delayed enough.”

“Take these to the two comrades in the guard room and direct them to General Golz’s headquarters,” Karkov said. “There has been too much delay.”

“Get me position Segovia,

Get me position Avila.”

You could not send

them to a surprise attack against an enemy that was waiting for it.

And if it had

been a surprise they could go on and down and over and through,

This was how it would be if there was no treason and if all did what they should.

he felt sick at his stomach for he knew from having heard Jordan’s dispatch over the phone that there would be no one on those two

ridges.

to escape the fr...

thought, I wonder if Andrés got through to Golz?

But remember this that as long as we can hold them here we keep the fascists tied up.

That makes not quite three days and three nights.

The officer was Lieutenant Berrendo.

Lieutenant Berrendo,

“I am called Anselmo and I come from Segovia.I