A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10799.A_Farewell_to_Arms
In this memorable work, Hemingway writes of things he experienced:
"On graduation from high school in 1917, impatient for a less-sheltered environment , he did not enter college but went to Kansas City, where he was employed as a reporter for the Star . He was repeatedly rejected for military service because of a defective eye, but he managed to enter World War I as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross . On July 8, 1918, not yet 19 years old, he was injured on the Austro-Italian front at Fossalta di Piave. Decorated for heroism and hospitalized in Milan, he fell in love with a Red Cross nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, who declined to marry him. These were experiences he was never to forget."
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway 1918
He lived and wrote of the life ...of a Man.
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