A FAREWELL TO ARMS, Hemingway

1in 1918 Ernest Hemingway went over to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms.

Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also developed a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.

Hard, almost metallic, glittering, blinding by reflections of its hard surface, utterly free of sentimentality.