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Hemingway Goes to War

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Terrible book. Not a single reference. I purchased the book hoping to have some insight into what may have gone on, but this reads like fiction. How does the author know that Hemingway was impotent anyway? Whiting seems obessed with that point. He holds some strange grudge against Hemingway.

A pure hatchet job by a true Hemingway hater. Gives the worst possible interpretation of everything Papa did, said, or even thought. This guy's got a problem. This is malice, not objective history. Sorry I wasted my money.

Anyone knowledgable about Hemingway would know that a book about his involvement in WWII would not be flattering; he was clearly playing soldier in a pompous self-important way. But this book, while it has interesting tidbits (without any references), has a bizarre obsession with Hemingway's impotence. Also, it seems that the writer begins to fancy himself a "great novelist" himself, what with his repetitve, melodramtic references to the "Factory of Death." Maybe he got co-opted by Hemingway, much the same way the people in his book that he criticizes did. If you can avoid getting irritated by this, it is an interesting read, although you wonder how much of it is factual.