A fascinating account of a dramatic, untold chapter in Hemingway's
life--his pursuit of German U-boats during World War II.
From the summer of 1942 until the end of 1943, Ernest Hemingway
lived in Havana, Cuba, and spent much of his time in the Gulf
Stream hunting German sub- marines in his wooden fishing boat, "The
Pilar." This phase of Hemingway's life has only been briefly
touched upon in biographies of Hemingway but proved to be of
enormous importance to him. At the time, the U-boats were torpedo-
ing dozens of Allied tankers each month and threatened America's
ability to wage war in Europe. Hemingway's patrols were supported
by the U.S. Navy, and he viewed these danger- ous missions as both
patriotic duty and pure adventure. But they were more than that:
they provided some literary basis for "The Old Man and the Sea" and
"Islands in the Stream."
Terry Mort's sensitive portrait of Hemingway also brings us his
wife Martha Gellhorn (who was scornful of Hemingway's patrols), a
naval account of the U-boat attacks in the vicinity, and a
perceptive contemplation of what the patrols meant to Hemingway the
man as well as the artist. Drawing on the writer's letters,
Gellhorn's memoirs, and the sailor's log of "The Pilar," Mort
reveals an important chapter in the life of a""literary legend.
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