A young American ambulance driver goes to war in Italy, and falls in love amid the ruins. A classic First World War novel of love, courage and survival. Ernest Hemingway’s powerful autobiographical story of war. In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of that experience came A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway’s
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
An immensely powerful novel of love and war based on Ernest Hemingway's own wartime experience.