On this date in history, July 8, 1918, the iconic novelist Ernest Hemingway, then an 18-year ... Italian Silver Medal of Valor for carrying a wounded Italian soldier to safety, even though badly ...

1. Ernest Hemingway earned the Italian Silver Medal of Valor and a Bronze Star. Hemingway served as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, and on July 8, 1918, he was badly wounded by ...

Ernest Hemingway was fascinated by death. He actively sought out experiences that would allow him to become intimate with death and dying, from his presence on every major warfront during his ...

Ernest Hemingway, 61, the bearded American novelist ... Later he joined an Italian infantry regiment and was wounded and twice decorated. He also went as a reporter to the Spanish Civil War ...

Ernest’s past as a wounded veteran and his glamorous lifestyle ... I could tell in my forthcoming, unpublished novel: “The black man, Hemingway’s black servant who carries the Lord Hunter ...

Ernest Hemingway’s World War I novel ... His service was barely a month old when he was wounded. The explosion changed his war, changed his life and eventually changed the way large numbers ...

Ernest Hemingway served as a war correspondent during ... just days before he was wounded by a mortar shell and machine-gun fire, an experience that inspired him to write “A Farewell to Arms.” ...

On this date in history, July 8, 1918, the iconic novelist Ernest Hemingway ... for the book is based somewhat on Hemingway's own experiences. "Severely wounded, he recuperated in a Red Cross ...