Authors: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN-13: 9780743243292, ISBN-10: 0743243293
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: Reprint
The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, Ernest Hemingway is one of the true giants of modern American literature. Hemingway's punchy, pared-down style and ability to zero in on the perfect characterizing detail of a person or scene has influenced every serious novelist of the second half of the 20th century. Everyone reads him at one time or another.
Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway
Ernest 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.
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
The Mercenaries | 5 | |
On the Quai at Smyrna | 13 | |
A Very Short Story | 15 | |
Soldier's Home | 17 | |
The Revolutionist | 24 | |
From In Our Time: Selected Vignettes | 25 | |
In Another Country | 31 | |
Now I Lay Me | 36 | |
A Natural History of the Dead | 43 | |
A Way You'll Never Be | 51 | |
From A Farewell to Arms: "Self-Inflicted Wounds" | 62 | |
"At the Front" | 65 | |
"The Retreat from Caporetto" | 70 | |
From Across the River and Into the Trees: "Immortal Youth" | 87 | |
The Butterfly and the Tank | 91 | |
Night Before Battle | 99 | |
From The Fifth Column: "Espionage and Counter-Espionage" | 125 | |
"Flying Death Machines" | 147 | |
"Small Town Revolution" | 149 | |
"Guerilla Warfare" | 176 | |
"El Sordo's Last Stand" | 186 | |
Black Ass at the Cross Roads | 203 | |
"The Taking of Paris" | 215 | |
"The Valhalla Express" | 220 | |
"The Pistol-Slappers" | 224 | |
"The Chain of Command" | 226 | |
"The Ivy Leaf" | 228 | |
"The Dead" | 231 | |
From Islands in the Stream: "Losing Your Son to War" | 234 | |
Popular in Peace - Slacker in War | 243 | |
Fascisti Party Half-Million | 245 | |
A Veteran Visits the Old Front | 248 | |
Did Poincare Laugh in Verdun Cemetery | 253 | |
Mussolini, Europe's Prize Bluffer - an excerpt | 256 | |
War Medals for Sale | 258 | |
Christians Leave Thrace to Turks | 263 | |
Waiting for an Orgy | 264 | |
A Silent, Ghastly Procession | 267 | |
Turks Distrust Kemal Pasha | 269 | |
Afghans: Trouble for Britain | 271 | |
The Greek Revolt | 274 | |
Kemal's One Submarine | 276 | |
A New Kind of War | 281 | |
The Chauffeurs of Madrid | 286 | |
Dying, Well or Badly | 292 | |
A Program for U.S. Realism | 295 | |
Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter | 301 | |
The Malady of Power: A Second Serious Letter - an excerpt | 307 | |
Russo-Japanese Pact | 310 | |
Voyage to Victory | 314 | |
How We Came to Paris | 327 | |
War in the Siegfried Line | 335 | |
A Bibliography of Ernest Hemingway's Writings on War | 343 |