A Farewell to Arms is the vivid story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his desire for a beautiful English nurse, written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and hailed as the best American novel to emerge from World War I. This gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep, set against the looming horrors of the battlefield-weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion.