A Farewell To Arms: Summary

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group of British nurses had arrived to set up a British hospital unit. Tenente started to call on Catherine Barkley, but not yet had he fallen in love with her. At the front, he was injured badly in the leg and was transferred to a hospital in Milan. He had his leg operated on and his wounded knee fixed. Catherine Barkley worked in this hospital, and she came to his room often to see him. After the operation, Tenente and Catherine spent much time together in Milan. Before he returned to the front, Catherine told him that she was pregnant. Tenente, at the front, drove an ambulance loaded with hospital supplies. The ambulance was often held up by stalled lines of traffic for miles. Later the Italian army was losing morale, and soldiers tried to escape the war. There was a type of “war police” which would capture these renegade soldiers, give them a short questioning, and then execute them. Tenente was among these renegade soldiers, but he managed to escape, plunge into a river, ...

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