Read For Whom the Bell Tolls

Expatriates drink through Paris and Pamplona; Hemingway's lost generation.

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse in the Italian war; the retreat from Caporetto.

Santiago, a marlin and the sharks; the novella that got Hemingway the Nobel.

Hemingway's 1920s Paris, Gertrude Stein and Fitzgerald, published after his death.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

A Roman patrician and a Christian girl under Nero; Sienkiewicz's Nobel.

Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo and Shere Khan; the law of the jungle.

An orphan and a Tibetan lama on the Grand Trunk Road, and the Great Game; Kipling's India.