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Courage is grace under great pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway witnessed most of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth-century -- from his post as a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I to his almost twenty five years as a war reporter for The Toronto Star -- and he recorded them with matchless power. This landmark volume includes Hemingway's most significant, classic documents concerning the character of individual fight. Pathways from his favorite World War I novel A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, concerning the Spanish Civil War, provide an unparalleled portrayal of the mental and real impact of war and its aftermath.