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You may think this is not something to be concerned about but I have wondered about it a long time without being resolved so maybe someone here knows.
When I was in HS I checked out "For Whom the Bell Tolls" from my local small town library. It was very old, dog eared and I don't remember the printing date but may have been a first edition. I couldn't put it down. EH often, in his writings, named items and articles by their brands, liquor, guns, automobiles etc. In this book I read, in the scene where, from his sleeping bag, Robert Jordan shot the Government cavalryman from his horse, EH wrote that the pistol was a Webley and I took it to mean it was a revolver as at that young age I didn't know that Webley also made semi automatic pistols. Then later in describing the sleeping bag that Jordan was in when he shot this trooper, EH wrote that the sleeping bag was made by Woods which I know makes (made?) bags and that Jordan had paid $50 for it because he wanted the finest. Later when El Sordo was surrounded on the hill and all was lost, El Sordo asked that one of his men hand him a "large"pistol and he was handed a Star. There may have been more references to brand names than these but you get the drift.
I wanted to re-read the book and just bought one from Amazon. All brand names have vanished. The sidearm he used is not a Webley but just the "large automatic", and the sleeping bag is not a Woods, just the "sleeping bag." I wonder why these changes have been made. Do any of the members here remember the old printing where the brand names were explicit. Thanks for any replies.
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