Contents

Foreword by Patrick Hemingway

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Seán Hemingway

WORKS OF FICTION

I

May There Be Peace in Our Time

The Mercenaries

On the Quai at Smyrna

A Very Short Story

Soldier’s Home

The Revolutionist

From IN OUR TIME:

Selected Vignettes

II

The War to End Wars

In Another Country

Now I Lay Me

A Natural History of the Dead

A Way You’ll Never Be

From A FAREWELL TO ARMS:

“Self-Inflicted Wounds”

“At the Front”

“The Retreat from Caporetto” 70

From ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES:

“Immortal Youth”

III

Revolution and Civil War in Spain

The Butterfly and the Tank

Night Before Battle

From THE FIFTH COLUMN:

“Espionage and Counter-Espionage”

From FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS:

“Flying Death Machines”

“Small Town Revolution”

“Guerrilla Warfare”

“El Sordo’s Last Stand”

IV

At the Front Again: The Allied Invasion of Europe

Black Ass at the Cross Roads

From ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES:

“The Taking of Paris”

“The Valhalla Express”

“The Pistol-Slappers”

“The Chain of Command”

“The Ivy Leaf”

“The Dead”

From ISLANDS IN THE STREAM:

“Losing Your Son to War”

SELECTED WAR CORRESPONDENCE

V

World War I and Its Aftermath

Popular in Peace—Slacker in War (The Toronto Star Weekly, March 13, 1920)

Fascisti Party Half-Million (The Toronto Daily Star, June 24, 1922)

A Veteran Visits the Old Front (The Toronto Daily Star, July 22, 1922)

Did Poincaré Laugh in Verdun Cemetery? (The Toronto Daily Star, August 12, 1922)

Mussolini, Europe’s Prize Bluffer—an excerpt (The Toronto Daily Star, January 27, 1923)

War Medals for Sale (The Toronto Star Weekly, December 8, 1923)

VI

The Greco-Turkish War

Christians Leave Thrace to Turks (The Toronto Daily Star, October 16, 1922)

Waiting for an Orgy (The Toronto Daily Star, October 19, 1922)

A Silent, Ghastly Procession (The Toronto Daily Star, October 20, 1922)

Turks Distrust Kemal Pasha (The Toronto Daily Star, October 24, 1922)

Afghans: Trouble for Britain (The Toronto Daily Star, October 31, 1922)

The Greek Revolt (The Toronto Daily Star, November 3, 1922)

Kemal’s One Submarine (The Toronto Daily Star, November 10, 1922)

VII

The Spanish Civil War

A New Kind of War (NANA Dispatch, April 14, 1937)

The Chauffeurs of Madrid (NANA Dispatch, May 22, 1937)

Dying, Well or Badly (Ken, April 21, 1938)

A Program for U.S. Realism (Ken, August 11, 1938)

VIII

World War II

Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter (Esquire, September 1935)

The Malady of Power: A Second Serious Letter—an excerpt (Esquire, November 1935)

Russo-Japanese Pact (PM, June 10, 1941)

Voyage to Victory (Collier’s, July 22, 1944)

How We Came to Paris (Collier’s, October 7, 1944)

War in the Siegfried Line (Collier’s, November 18, 1944)

Photographs

A Bibliography of Ernest Hemingway’s Writings on War

About Ernest Hemingway