![]() ![]() Following recuperation in a Milan hospital, he returned home and became a freelance writer for the Toronto Star. ![]() He was severely wounded on the Austrian front on July 9, 1918. After graduation from high school, he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked briefly for the Kansas City Star. Failing to qualify for the United States Army because of poor eyesight, he enlisted with the American Red Cross to drive ambulances in Italy. Ernest HemingwayĮrnest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. ![]() Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield-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. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, 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. ![]()
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