A story of love and pain,loyalty and desertionthis classic edition of A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse set against the backdrop of World War I. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War IA Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurseΓÇöa love with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefieldΓÇöwearydemoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertionΓÇöthis grippingsemiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.