FAREWELL+TO+ARMS

= World War I  = = =

o Began: [|August 1], [|1914] o Ended: [|November 11], [|1918] o Combatants 70,000,000 o Deaths: More than 15,000,000 o Allied Powers: [|United Kingdom], [|France], [|Russian Empire], [|New Zealand], [|Belgium], [|Ser Serbia], [|Canada], [|Australia], [|Italy], [|Romania], [|United States] o Central Powers: [|Germany], [|Austrian-Hungarian Empire], [|Ottoman Empire], [|Bulgaria]

World War I began in [|1914] and involved most of the world's major military powers. The Allied Powers defeated the Central Powers in [|1918]. =FAREWELL TO ARMS= (Title taken from one of [|George Peele]'s poems )
 * **Author:** [|Ernest Hemingway]
 * **Genre:** [|War Novel]
 * **Publication date:** [|1929]
 * **Publisher:** //[|Scribner's Magazine]//
 * **Adaptations:** [|Film Adaptation] - [|1932], [|Film Adaptation] - [|1950]
 * **Narration:** Limited, First Person Narrator/Participant
 * **Setting:** [|Italy] and [|Switzerland]
 * Semi-autobiographical

//A Farewell to Arms// is a fictional novel by [|Ernest Hemingway] that was first published in [|1929]. //A Farewell to Arms// tells the story of [|Frederic Henry], an [|ambulance] driver in the [|Italian Army] during [|World War I]. Henry is injured in battle and placed in a [|hospital] to recover. It is there he meets Catherine with whom he begins to fall in [|love]. After Henry has healed, he is sent back into battle, leaving a pregnant Catherine behind. The [|Italian] forces are defeated by the [|Germans] and, as punishment, the Italian government begins executing former offices as [|traitors]. Henry eventually escapes to reunite with Catherine and live in [|Switzerland].
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Critical Reception
While //A Farewell to Arms// is usually considered to be a classic, some have even gone as far as to call it one of the greatest war novels of all time.

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