Ergebnis für "Arms" in 20. Jahrhundert

The definitive edition of the classic World War I romance novel, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times)...

Long considered one of the best American novels of our time, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this gripping semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war as only Hemingway can. A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms paints an intimate portrait of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the inexorable creep of global war.

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms is one of the defining American novels of the twentieth century. Set against the Italian front during the First World War, the story follows Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver serving with the Italian army, and Catherine Barkley, the English nurse with whom he falls deeply in love. Around them, war becomes less a matter of glory than of confusion, exhaustion, retreat, and loss.

Été 1912. Dans un champ de blé, une charrette bascule, une femme meurt. Mais les larmes n'ont pas leur place dans ce monde paysan, où la vie tient au travail incessant des bras et des saisons : à dix-sept ans, Marie Guillou doit taire sa peine et assurer la suite de sa mère, apprendre à son tour le labeur des champs, conduire la demeure familiale. Au sein de ce modeste hameau où vit sa famille, les jeunes filles n'ont pas la possibilité de se plaindre, encore moins d'aimer ou de rêver.

El metodo casi periodistico y descarnado de Hemingway muestra al joven idealista Frederick Henry, quien despues de cumplir como voluntario en el ejercito, se enamora y huye, para encontrarse con dramas incluso superiores a los del campo de batalla. Es una novela llena de significados y con un fondo, que a pesar de su realismo es de un romanticismo digno de los grandes creadores del siglo XIX.

En 1944, les Allemands s'attendent à un débarquement. Mais où ? Les Alliés ont édifié sur la côte, au nord de Londres, une formidable base où s'entassent, entre d'interminables rangées de baraquements, des chars, des avions, des canons - tout cela en toile peinte tendue sur du bois ou en carton-pâte. Il s'agit de faire croire à Hitler que le débarquement se fera dans le Pas-de-Calais et non pas en Normandie.

This semiautobiographical tale features an American ambulance driver, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, stationed on the Italian front, who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a beautiful English nurse. Set against the horrors of war on the battlefield, with tired, demoralized men facing the German attack on Caporetto, Hemingway unforgettably captures their despair as well as the pain of lovers caught in the harsh realities of war, which threaten to pull them apart.

A propulsive thriller set during one of the pivotal battles of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Gates of Rome. Two brothers are brought down over the Netherlands in 1944. When they drop from the sky, they enter hell on earth. With a ragged crew of misfits, they just have to survive long...

"A Farewell to Arms" was Ernest Hemingway’s first best-seller and the acclaim garnered by this book put his name on the 20th century literary map. The novel is based on Hemingway’s own experiences serving as an ambulance driver during the Italian campaign in World War I and has often been cited as one of the best war novels ever written.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Frederic Henry is an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, drinking his way through a war that has not yet touched him personally. Catherine Barkley is an English nurse at the hospital in Gorizia whose fiancé was blown to...

This new audiobook edition of Hemingway's classic is narrated by Audie Award nominee and AudioFile Golden Voice Kevin R. Free. "It is a moving and beautiful book." Percy Hutchison in the The New York Times Book Review, 1929 "Hemingways rhythmic, stripped-down, often-mimicked style lulls readers...

Paris, 1942: From the far side of the cobbled street Sadie locks eyes with a thin woman wearing a yellow star and clutching a newborn baby. Her eyes carry a pleading message that Sadie cannot ignore. As the woman is hustled onto a bus by cold-eyed soldiers, she calls out a desperate appeal. Moments later, Sadie hears the tiny cry. Scooping the abandoned baby under her jacket, she runs to where she works: La Maison Bleue. A place of glittering chandeliers and velvet armchairs, beloved by the German soldiers. A dangerous place for a young girl to hide a Jewish child.

A gripping and thrilling novel of the courageous Black women who made history in World War Two. Inspired by true events, and perfect for fans of Kate Quinn's The Alice Network and Hidden Figures. Based on the true story of the 6888th Postal Battalion (the Six Triple Eight), Sisters in Arms...

The World War II thriller from number one bestselling author Conn Iggulden. Two brothers are brought down over the Netherlands in 1944. When they drop from the sky, they enter hell on earth. With a ragged crew of misfits, they just have to survive long enough for reinforcements to punch through...

A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway's classic set during the Italian campaign of World War I. It's about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations.

One of Hemingway's most acclaimed novels, "A Farewell to Arms," narrated by Mike Vendetti. Set during World War I, this poignant love story draws upon Hemingway's own experiences as an ambulance driver. Within the backdrop of war's brutality, the narrative balances moments of humor with the profound horrors of battle. Hemingway, a master of literary expression, skillfully captures the complex emotions of love, fear, and the occasional levity that can emerge even in the darkest of circumstances, offering listeners a deeply immersive experience.

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (Italian: tenente) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The novel describes a love between the American expatriate and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley.

Kaia Alderson’s debut historical fiction novel reveals the untold, true story of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps, who made the dangerous voyage to Europe to ensure American servicemen received word from their loved ones during World War II. Grace...

In the heart of war-torn France, two brothers, Markus and Charles Lefèvre, rise to defy the encroaching darkness of Nazi occupation. Their bond, forged in the trenches of the Great War, becomes a bastion of hope as they lead a courageous resistance. Their journeys unfold in two volumes: "La Maquis Cell" and "The Eagles of Vercors."

In the thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet agent and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit. Vienna, 1954 After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage...