Ernest Hemingway was a soldier, a boxer, a hunter, a fisherman, a drinker, a father and the writer of words and stories that aimed to be, above all else, true and honest and pure. He also knew how ...

In "A Moveable Feast," Hemingway recalled the ambulances he drove on the Austro-Italian battlefront in the summer of 1918. He talked about how their brakes frequently burned out on the mountain roads.