Ernest Hemingwayâs most important writings on warâperhaps the authorâs greatest subjectâare brought together in a single volume, introduced and edited by his grandson, SeĂĄn Hemingway, with a foreword by his son, Patrick Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth centuryâfrom his post as a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I to his nearly twenty-five years as a war correspondent for The Toronto Starâand he recorded them with matchless power. This landmark volume brings together Hemingwayâs most important and timeless writings about the nature of human combat.
Passages from his beloved World War I novel, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, about the Spanish Civil War, offer an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. Selections from Across the River and into the Trees vividly evoke an emotionally scarred career soldier in the twilight of life as he reflects on the nature of war. Classic short stories, such as âIn Another Countryâ and âThe Butterfly and the Tank,â stand alongside excerpts from Hemingwayâs first book of short stories, In Our Time, and his only full-length play, The Fifth Column.
With captivating selections from Hemingwayâs journalismâfrom his coverage of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919â22 to a legendary early interview with Mussolini to his jolting eyewitness account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944âHemingway on War collects the authorâs most penetrating chronicles of perseverance and defeat, courage and fear, and love and loss in the midst of modern warfare.