The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is a story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion all in one. Henry, an American ambulance driver in the Italian army falls in love with a beautiful English nurse named Catherine. Their love story is caught in the middle of the war, a war that Hemingway describes in great detail. From the German attack, to lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized this story brings war and romance together into a classic piece of literature.