A Farewell to Arms

A young American ambulance lieutenant serving with the Italian Army on the Alpine front during the First World War falls in love with a British nurse, and their story unfolds against the disastrous Italian retreat from Caporetto and a desperate flight to neutral Switzerland. Written in Hemingway's spare, understated first-person prose, A Farewell to Arms established the plain declarative style that would define American fiction for a generation, and remains one of the most searing depictions of love and loss set against the backdrop of modern war.