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Events on Monday 21 October 1940 1
1940For Whom the Bell Tolls publishedHemingway's novel of the Spanish Civil WarErnest Hemingway's novel was published on 21 October. It follows Robert Jordan, an American volunteer ordered to blow up a bridge during the Spanish Civil War. It became one of the best-selling American novels of its time.