Hemingway at war : Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a World War II correspondent / Terry Mort.

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Mort, T. A. (Terry A.) [Browse]
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Book
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English
Εdition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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New York : Pegasus Books, 2016.
Description
x, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "In the spring of 1944, Hemingway traveled to London and then to France to cover World War II for Colliers Magazine. Obviously he was a little late in arriving. Why did he go? He had resisted this kind of journalism for much of the early period of the war, but when he finally decided to go, he threw himself into the thick of events and so became a conduit to understanding some of the major events and characters of the war. He flew missions with the RAF (in part to gather material for a novel); he went on a landing craft on Omaha Beach on D-Day; he went on to involve himself in the French Resistance forces in France and famously rode into the still dangerous streets of liberated Paris. And he was at the German Siegfried line for the horrendous killing ground of the Hürtgen Forest, in which his favored 22nd Regiment lost nearly every man they sent into the fight. After that tragedy, it came to be argued, he was never the same. This invigorating narrative is also, in a parallel fashion, an investigation into Hemingway's subsequent work--much of it stemming from his wartime experience--which shaped the latter stages of his career in dramatic fashion."--Dust jacket.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
    ISBN
    • 1681772477
    • 9781681772479
    LCCN
    2017299500
    OCLC
    940362194
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