Hemingway goes to war

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Hemingway goes to war

Charles Whiting

Sutton Pub., 1999

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Papa goes to war

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First published by Crowood Press, 1990

Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-284) and index

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Description

Ernest Hemingway, literary giant of the 20th century, was renowned as a hard-drinking man of action. As the fighting reached its climax in the closing ten months of World War II, he spent time as a US war correspondent based in London, paris and Luxembourg. It was during that period, by his own account, that he participated in the D-Day landings and saw action in the frontline at the Battle of the Bulge with the US Army. He also claimed to have flown on bombing raids with the Royal Air Force. This text examines Hemingway's trail through war-torn Europe during World War II, chronicling his tangled personal life and assessing the impact that first-hand experience of war had on him both as a writer and as a man.

Table of Contents

  • Book one - England, Spring 1944: dear old London town
  • Miss Mary
  • Hemingway's longest day
  • buzz bombs, booze and buckwheat pancakes
  • papa goes to war - at last. Book two - France, Summer 1944: the Ivy League division
  • the Hemingway irregulars
  • the road to Paris
  • a command post at the Ritz
  • the road to the Reich. Book three - Germany, Autumn 1944: the battle for Hitler's wall
  • the inquiry
  • a command post at the Ritz
  • Bumby goes into the bag
  • the "Death Factory". Book four - Luxembourg, Winter 1944: the last hurrah
  • black christmas
  • goodbye to all that
  • a tourist in a helmet.

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