Contains short stories, featuring men, who are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by woman's hand.

Spring is coming to Michigan, but snow still covers the land when Scripps O'Neil sets off for Chicago and decides to stop a while in Petoskey. This is the point where he meets up with Yogi Johnson. Their bizarre stories are a parody of conventional fiction.

Richard Cantrell, an American colonel falls passionately in love with an Italian countess in Venice just after World War Two has ended. The fighting may have ended but for some the longed-for peace has come too late.

This collection consists of 17 short stories, written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost; they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death.

A young American volunteers for the Italian ambulance service in World War I. Working near the front, he meets and falls in love with a British nurse. Disillusioned by the war, he makes the decision to desert, taking his new love to Switzerland.

Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century, as a Red Cross ambulance driver during the First World War and during his twenty-five years as a war correspondent. This edition offers an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. It contains extracts from A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, some of Hemingway's very best short stories, his only full-length play, The Fifth Column as well as selections from his wartime journalism. Hemingway on War represents the author's penetrating chronicles of...