In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war.He volunteered for the ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of this experience came A Farewell to Arms.Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer, and the men and women he meets in Italy, with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war in it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.