Martha Gellhorn: The Love Affair with Major General James Gavin of The 82nd Airborne – Europe 1944
When the American journalist (and third wife of Ernest Hemingway), Martha Gellhorn, first saw Major General James Gavin, CO of the 82nd Airborne, during Operation Market Garden in September 1944, she was smitten…
Ernest Hemingway Dreams About Heloise and Goes Back to War: France, September 1944
After taking just one more slug of brandy Hemingway fell asleep and sank back into the Paris of 1925…
Ernest Hemingway Returns to Paris – August, 1944
Ernest Hemingway wanted to be the first American in Paris. Others had the same idea…
Ernest Hemingway: The Road to Paris – August, 1944
“…it was a drinking fest that would have destroyed the constitution of a normal man.” -Col.Bruce, OSS.
Ernest Hemingway Meets General Leclerc: France, August 1944
The French general, Philippe Marie Leclerc, was a tough professional soldier who didn’t suffer fools, or novelists, gladly.
Ernest Hemingway Becomes a Problem for General Patton: France, 1944
With General George Patton and his 3rd Army on the outskirts of Paris the last thing he wants to hear is that Ernest Hemingway has his own private army.
Ernest Hemingway Has a Fist Fight: France, August 1944
When more war correspondents and a Hollywood film director, arrived in Rambouillet things didn’t go well for Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway and D-Day, June 6th, 1944
Sixty-five years ago, in the early hours of 6th June, 1944 (D-Day) the American writer, Ernest Hemingway, was on a LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel) hoping to be the first war correspondent onto Omaha Beach…
Premature Obituaries Two
10 more notable people who have been reported or publicized as having died while still alive.
