Robert Jordan’s (and Ernest Hemingway’s) True Book : Myths and Moral Quandaries in \u3cem\u3eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u3c/em\u3e

Examines Hemingway’s undermining of the Republic’s heroic image in his postwar novel, an image he had sought to preserve in his wartime journalism so as not to jeopardize the Loyalist cause. Cohen explores the narrative’s treatment of the Soviets’ repressive presence, Loyalist atrocities like the massacre in Pilar’s village, and Jordan’s moral quandaries in fulfilling his mission, concluding that Hemingway’s greater aim was to set the record straight regarding the moral ambiguities and dilemmas that surround any war