ISBN:

• 9780737763942
• 9780737763935

Description: 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Background on Ernest Hemingway. The life of Ernest Hemingway / Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature
• Hemingway learned and lost from his war experiences / Peter Moreira
• Writers tell the truth about war / Ernest Hemingway
• For Hemingway, war was inevitable and criminal / Erik Nakjavani
• Hemingway kept politics out of his art / Frederick R. Benson
• For whom the bell tolls and war. Hemingway depicts war as a test of moral character / E.L. Doctorow
• Hemingway shows all sides of war / Peter Messent
• Hemingway refused to write war propaganda / Samuel Shaw
• Robert Jordan learns about the complexity of war / Jeffrey Walsh
• Hemingway's characters fight for a cause / Peter L. Hays
• Robert Jordan is a Hemingway hero who wins / Philip Young
• For whom the bells tolls is a novel about how to die / Scott Donaldson
• Pilar's massacre story depicts the brutality of humankind / Allen Josephs
• For whom the bell tolls is a war epic / Carlos Baker
• Maria is a victim of war / Charles J. Nolan, Jr.
• Contemporary perspectives on war. The Afghanistan War must be won / The economist
• The media fueled the run-up to the Iraq War / Matthew Rothschild
• The Spanish Civil War offers important lessons about Iraq / Stephen Schwartz
• America failed to accomplish its goals in Iraq / Jed Babbin
• Obama's war tactics are subtle but deadly / Luiza Ch. Savage
• Middle East revolutions may not lead to democracy / Pauline H. Baker.

LCCN: 2012027205

Control Number: 1044640

Series:

• Social issues in literature
• Social issues in literature.

Subjects:

• Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. For whom the bell tolls.
• Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Literature and the war.
• War in literature.

Other Authors: Wiener, Gary.