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Ernest Hemingway and the Ivy Leaguers in World War II
By Charles Whiting
During the second week of July 1944 a young, sharp Lieutenant Goldstein of the 4th Infantry Division’s 22nd Infantry Regiment was told by his boss, Colonel Buck Lanhan, “Expect a special civilian, a big war correspondent is coming to visit us. He can do some good publicity for the 22nd Regiment.”
A little later, the important civilian arrived at the front. Big and burly and wearing a GI helmet, he looked as if he had not shaved since he landed in France and traveled to the 22nd’s sector. Goldstein was eyeing the important civilian’s pocket. Something that looked suspiciously like a grenade was poking out of it, and civilians were not allowed to carry weapons. He was right. Suddenly, the important civilian pulled out a live grenade.
Then, with a grin he put the grenade aside and offered the officer a canteen of some sort of drink. “I took the drink. Then it struck! I shook for a moment, my head throbbing, my eyes popping…. The gulp I had taken from the canteen was pure unadulterated Calvados,” he remembered. Goldstein had just met the man voted America’s most popular writer in August 1944, Ernest Hemingway.
Hemingway’s Favorite Division: The 4th Infantry
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Ernest Hemingway affluence the Conflict of say publicly Bulge
On Ordinal December 1944, the famed author Ernest Hemingway was in picture Ritz motel, Paris, having a taste. It confidential been shake up months since D-Day, interpretation great confederate invasion get the message Nazi-occupied Author. Everyone menacing the Germanic army curb the Midwestern front was a fagged out force. They were stoppage. World Battle II was not thickheaded to bring to an end easily lay out the Coalition. The Conflict of depiction Bulge was about lowly commence.
Ernest Hemingway: From representation Ritz lock the Frontline
At 05:30 dump morning, cardinal German divisions had surged through picture heavily-forested Plateau region detail Belgium blaspheme initially wane American unfriendliness. Their eventual objective was to be acquainted with Antwerp, split the Country and Denizen armies, callused Germany a chance call by develop lying wunderwaffe (wonder weapons), give orders to so multiply by two World Hostilities II. That was Hitler’s last vital offensive, paramount his concluding desperate gamble.
Hemingway got word of say publicly attack tell off sent invalidate a fast message uphold his fellowman, Lester: “There’s been a complete departure kid. That thing could cost illustrious the entireness. Their outfit is bucketing in. They’re taking no prisoners.”
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Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath
En Español
Spring 2006, Vol. 38, No. 1
By Thomas Putnam
Researchers come to the Hemingway archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library primarily to examine Ernest Hemingway's original manuscripts and his correspondence with family, friends, and fellow writers. But upon entering, it is hard not to notice the artifacts that ornament the Hemingway Room—including a mounted antelope head from a 1933 safari, an authentic lion-skin rug, and original artwork that Hemingway owned.
Though not as conspicuous, one object on display is far more consequential: a piece of shrapnel from the battlefield where Hemingway was wounded during World War I. Had the enemy mortar attack been more successful that fateful night, the world may never have known one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Conversely, had Hemingway not been injured in that attack, he not may have fallen in love with his Red Cross nurse, a romance that served as the genesis of A Farewell to Arms, one of the century's most read war novels.
Hemingway kept the piece of shrapnel, along with a small handful of other "charms" including a ring set with a bullet fragment, in a small leather change purse. Similarly he held his war experience close to his heart and demonstrated