Hemingway on War
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Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century -- from his post as a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I to his nearly twenty-five years as a war correspondent for The Toronto Star -- and he recorded them with matchless power. This landmark volume brings together Hemingway's most important, timeless writings about the nature of human combat.Passages from his beloved World War I novel A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, about the Spanish Civil War, offer an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. Selections from Across the River and Into the Trees vividly evoke an emotionally scarred career soldier in the twilight of life as he reflects on the nature of war. Classic short stories, such as "In Another Country" and "The Butterfly and the Tank," stand alongside excerpts from Hemingway's first book of short stories, In Our Time, and his only full-length play, The Fifth Column.With captivating selections from Hemingway's journalism -- from his coverage of the Greco-Turkish War of 1922 to a legendary early interview with Mussolini to his jolting eyewitness account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 -- 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.
ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Mercenaries5On the Quai at Smyrna13A Very Short Story15Soldier's Home17The Revolutionist24From In Our Time: Selected Vignettes25In Another Country31Now I Lay Me36A Natural History of the Dead43A Way You'll Never Be51From A Farewell to Arms: "Self-Inflicted Wounds"62"At the Front"65"The Retreat from Caporetto"70From Across the River and Into the Trees: "Immortal Youth"87The Butterfly and the Tank91Night Before Battle99From The Fifth Column: "Espionage and Counter-Espionage"125"Flying Death Machines"147"Small Town Revolution"149"Guerilla Warfare"176"El Sordo's Last Stand"186Black Ass at the Cross Roads203"The Taking of Paris"215"The Valhalla Express"220"The Pistol-Slappers"224"The Chain of Command"226"The Ivy Leaf"228"The Dead"231From Islands in the Stream: "Losing Your Son to War"234Popular in Peace - Slacker in War243Fascisti Party Half-Million245A Veteran Visits the Old Front248Did Poincare Laugh in Verdun Cemetery253Mussolini, Europe's Prize Bluffer - an excerpt256War Medals for Sale258Christians Leave Thrace to Turks263Waiting for an Orgy264A Silent, Ghastly Procession267Turks Distrust Kemal Pasha269Afghans: Trouble for Britain271The Greek Revolt274Kemal's One Submarine276A New Kind of War281The Chauffeurs of Madrid286Dying, Well or Badly292A Program for U.S. Realism295Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter301The Malady of Power: A Second Serious Letter - an excerpt307Russo-Japanese Pact310Voyage to Victory314How We Came to Paris327War in the Siegfried Line335A Bibliography of Ernest Hemingway's Writings on War343
