Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway´s Adventures as a World War II Correspondent
Terry Mort
In the spring of 1944, Ernest Hemingway travelled to London and then to France to cover the Second World War for Colliers Magazine. He had resisted this kind of journalism for the early period of the war but now threw himself into the thick of events. He flew missions with the RAF, went on a landing craft on Omaha Beach on D-Day, involved himself in the French Resistance forces and famously rode into the still dangerous streets of liberated Paris. He was at the Siegfried Line in the Huertgen Forest when the 22nd Regiment lost nearly every man sent into ... Read more
This invigorating narrative is, in parallel, an investigation into Hemingway’s subsequent work—much of it stemming from his wartime experience—which shaped the latter stages of his career.
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Charleston Post and Courier
"Mort is a fine writer who has put his finger on an element in Hemingway’s career that hasn’t been broadly considered."
Buffalo News
"Hemingway at War is about much more than Hemingway, offering what some might think of as padding, ... Read more