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Hemingway on War
  • Published: 1 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099583189
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $39.99

Hemingway on War

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A unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some classic short stories, an extract from his only full-length play and a range of his war journalism

Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century, as a Red Cross ambulance driver during the First World War and during his twenty-five years as a war correspondent. This edition offers an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. It contains extracts from A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, some of Hemingway’s very best short stories, his only full-length play, The Fifth Column as well as selections from his wartime journalism. Hemingway on War represents the author's penetrating chronicles of perseverance and defeat, courage and fear, and love and loss in the midst of modern warfare.

‘This collection illuminates many sides of Hemingway's thoughts on conflict’ Publishers Weekly
‘Out of his somber materials - fear, confusion, death - he made great beauty’ New York Times
  • Published: 1 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099583189
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Ernest Hemingway

ERNEST HEMINGWAY was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, the child of a physician and a musician. After high school, he became a journalist with The Kansas City Star, before enlisting to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He returned home after a serious injury in 1918, but his military experience informed his fiction, especially A Farewell to Arms. He worked as a war correspondent for The Toronto Star during his first marriage, and over the next three marriages he would live in Paris, London, Key West, and Cuba. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two nonfiction titles. On safari in Africa in 1952 he survived two plane crashes, though his obituaries ran prematurely. He lived on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Two trunks of his early work from Paris reappeared in 1957, and inspired him to write his memoir A Moveable Feast. He eventually committed suicide in Idaho in 1961.
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Also by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Farewell to Arms
A Moveable Feast
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Fiesta
The Annotated Sun Also Rises
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Praise for Hemingway on War

This noteworthy anthology presents some of Hemingway's most powerful writings on war... Hemingway's grandson has made a fine selection

Tampa Tribune

A harrowing collection of Papa's battlefield writing, both truth and fiction

Men's Health

Hemingway's take on the most tragic of human undertakings, and some of his best writing

Denver Post

Flawless...such mastery of narrative, imagery and feeling, the prerequisites for great prose

Edna O'Brien on A Farewell to Arms, Guardian

A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general, and the Spanish civil war in particular

About For Whom the Bell Tolls, Sunday Telegraph

Out of his somber materials - fear, confusion, death - he made great beauty. His short story 'In Another Country' begins with a paragraph exquisite in its spare lyricism and resignation

New York Times

An excellent story-teller, intense and skilful

Daily Telegraph

One of the most-celebrated writers of the twentieth century

Independent