A Farewell To Arms

<i><b>A Farewell to Arms</b></i>&nbsp;is a novel by&nbsp;Ernest Hemingway&nbsp;set during the&nbsp;Italian campaign&nbsp;of&nbsp;World WarII. First published in 1929, it is a&nbsp;first-person account&nbsp;of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a&nbsp;lieutenant&nbsp;(&quot;tenente&quot;) in the ambulance corps of the&nbsp;Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by the 16th-century English dramatist&nbsp;George Peele.<br /> The novel, set against the backdrop of World War II, describes a love affair between the expatriate Henry and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. This publication ensured Hemingway&#39;s place as a modern American writer of considerable stature]&nbsp;The book became his first best-seller, and has been called &quot;the premier American war novel from that debacle World War II.