Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms

1929

Ernest Hemingway's novel of an American ambulance driver's love affair during the Italian retreat from Caporetto captured the lost generation's disillusionment in plain, muscular prose stripped of Victorian ornament. The book made Hemingway famous, established him as the foremost American novelist of his generation, and became a template for modern fiction. War literature had found its iceberg style.