On this date in history, July 8, 1918, the iconic novelist Ernest Hemingway, then an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, was struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian ...

During his time in Italy during WWI, Ernest Hemingway suffered life-threatening injuries. During WWI, Ernest Hemingway joined the Red Cross Ambulance Service where he was sent to Italy, helping to ...

He had tried to enlist in all the services, he wrote me. He told me that the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps had all turned him down, not for being underage, since he was past 18, but he could ...

WHEN June, 1917, arrived, the boys in our senior class had the war, even more than college, on their minds. President Wilson had given up neutrality in April, 1917. Ernest put off deciding where to go ...

James McGrath Morris is the author of “The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War.” He may be one of the most important figures in the history of 20th- century ...