A true American classic, A Farewell to Arms is the extraordinary story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his yearning for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's writing makes one feel alive with his rich detail Henry convinces himself he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Hemingway's true to life version of the love between Frederic Henry, first lieutenant in the Italian army and Catherine Barkley, an English Red Cross nurse, caught in the tides of war.
             Henry is hit in the leg with a trench mortar shell as they were fighting against Austria-Hungarians; luckily they transfer him to Milan, the same place that Catherine is going.
             After his leave and healing time in the hospital he was to go back to fighting with the men marching in the rain, hungry, weary and having no morale left to support themselves. Henry returns in time for the great retreat from the Austrians and Germans, the Italian forces become disordered and chaotic.
             To escape the only way out is to shoot an engineer sergeant under his command to leave the war behind. Following that he dives into the river to escape. Henry finds Catherine in Stresa. With the help of the Italian bartender, they escape to Switzerland in a small boat and try to forget the war. All is well until Catherine goes into labor and things decline and go terribly wrong.......
             A story of love pain, loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, a landmark for reading.
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