Michael Barry has already published four impressive books on Spain, and this fifth, about the famous Spanish Armada, places special emphasis on the fates of some of the expedition along the Irish ...

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS—Ernest Hemingway—Scrlbner ($2.75). In the ’20s Ernest Hemingway created a stripped, hard-boiled prose for telling terse, hard-boiled stories about broken-down ...