Funny. I just started reading Mine Were of Trouble by Peter Kemp. He was a young Englishman fresh out of college who volunteered for the Nationalist cause in Spain.
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It was a naive adventure, he eventually realised it, all through Hemingway’s life he sought adventure and new columns to write about.
Every book and short story derives from
an experience or story he had heard first hand. Hemingway wasn’t a true writer in the sense we know nowadays.