A full-scale exposé on Ernest Hemingway’s life as a World War II correspondent.
About the Book
‘Papa’ Hemingway, through his writings, depicted himself as a hard-drinking man of action. Over the course of the final ten months of the war, he claimed to have participated in the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach, undertaken dangerous patrols with American troops during the freezing and brutal Battle of the Bulge, and flown with the Royal Air Force on bombing raids over enemy territory.
Yet just how truthful were Hemingway’s accounts? How close to the action was he? And did he ever really know what life was like for the average American GI?
Charles Whiting’s meticulously researched account of Hemingway’s journey through war-torn Europe reveals a life spent more in châteaus than in foxholes, enjoying vintage champagne rather than meagre rations. Whiting explores the writer’s complicated personal life and his unfair denunciations of men like Eisenhower, offering an alternative view of Hemingway from the myth he created.
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