However, machine-gun fire struck him in the knee and foot, and he was eventually sent to a hospital in Milan, Italy. Despite the wound, he managed to carry an Italian soldier to the nearby command post. He jumped at the chance to be a canteen-provider on the front lines, handing out chocolate and cigarettes to the troops during battle, and on Jhe was hit in the leg by an Austrian mortar shell. army for his poor eyesight (which he later falsely claimed was due to boxing), Hemingway's determination to join the war effort landed him a post with the Red Cross as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. Roughly half of the 70 million men and women serving in the war were killed, injured, or taken prisoner.Ī Farewell to Arms is greatly informed by Hemingway's own wartime experience. joined the war in 1917), the Great War, as it was called, with its vast scope, modernized weaponry, and vague political struggle over land, laid waste to Europe's landscape and population. (Italy defected from the Triple Alliance in 1915 the U.S. Fought primarily between the Triple Alliance powers of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Triple Entente countries of England, France, Russia, Italy, and the U.S. World War I began in 1914 and ended on Nov.
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