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Robert Jordan was a loyalist during the Spanish Civil War, and is sent behind enemy lines to blow up a bridge so a larger attack by the republicans can take place. Jordan meets Pablo the leader of a group of guerillas. The guerillas come to help assist in their mission to blow the bridge, but a snowstorm hits in the mountains. The enemy cavalry can now follow their footprints to the cave where they are hiding. Jordan finds out vital information about their enemy, the fascists, and sends a man named Andres to the headquarters of General Golz, hoping that the attack will me cancelled. The report gets to the general too late. Andres finds men in town to help them with the attack because there will be a larger band of men where they are going to blow the bridge. It looks like a suicide mission. Robert Jordan, is the main character in this novel. Jordan, as he is referred to in the book, is an American operative that is fighting in the international brigade. He is on the Loyalist side, which he joined because he felt bad for the Spanish people. He didn’t believe i