Ernest Hemingway — Another Sort of War

Steve Newman Writer
Nov 4 · 47 min read

With Mary — Cuba, Italy, New York, and France: 1945–1950

Image: JFK Library

All Ernest Hemingway can see and hear is the death and destruction of the war. But he’s looking at it as if it were a film, and he can see himself as if from the back row of an empty cinema, and there he is up on the screen, and the film looks like one of those documentaries, and he keeps looking at the camera and smiling, but it’s not…

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Playwright, Historian & Freelance Writer Living and Working in Shakespeare’s Stratford

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