A story behind a story, less about the issues of race, class, war and revolutions than it is about the influence of “official” lies.Follow the lives of Ernest Hemingway and Alan Winslow, two boys from neighboring suburbs of Chicago, whose family connections span three generations. As early immigrants to America, members of the Hemingway and Winslow households fought in the American Civil War, survived the Chicago fire of 1871, and answered the call to duty after America’s declaration of war against Germany in 1917.This biography explores the lives of these two boys during their formative years to America’s declaration of war in April 1917. Read about the battlefields of Europe, and the story of one soldier’s return home after the war during the period when official propaganda came to be associated more and more with lies and falsehoods.In the immediate post-war period, follow the story of one soldier’s return to Europe; during the establishment of the new Czechoslovakian state, and the birth of fascism in Italy, amid international efforts in Geneva to negotiate a lasting peace and develop a protocol for the Prohibition of Poisonous Gasses and Biological methods of Warfare.During the early 1920s, follow the career of Ernest Hemingway as a foreign news correspondent based in Paris. Get a glimpse behind the scenes of an early breed of American expatriate writers living in Paris and also read about Hemingway’s attempts to have one of his first post-war short stories published in a major American publication.Two Boys from The Life and u0026 Times of Ernest Hemingway and Alan Winslow, offers an insightful look into the early life and career of Ernest Hemingway, and reveals a previously hidden influence on Hemingway’s early post-war short stories.

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