The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway’s frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto of lines of tired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized literary history. is one of the greatest moments in

‘A novel of great power.

Times Literary Supplement

‘Hard, almost metallic, glittering, blinding by the reflections of its hard surface, utterly free of sentimentality… a strange and original