Farewell To Arms

A young American ambulance driver goes to war in Italy, and falls in love amid the ruins. A classic First World War novel of love, courage and survival.

Ernest Hemingway’s powerful autobiographical story of war.

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of that experience came A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway’s unforgettable war novel.

The story follows a young American volunteer serving in Italy during the First World War, recreating the fear, comradeship and courage of wartime with simplicity and immediacy. Amid the confusion and brutality of conflict, he falls in love, and that love becomes the centre of a life lived under pressure.

A Farewell to Arms is a classic First World War novel about courage, disillusionment, love and survival. Written in Hemingway’s spare, restrained style, it is both a literary war novel and a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.

For readers of twentieth-century classics and historical fiction set during the First World War, it remains one of Hemingway’s most powerful works.

'A novel of great power' Times Literary Supplement

'In these troubled times Hemingway's clarity, spirituality and sense of hard reality in the midst of confusion is very helpful' Sunday Telegraph