The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway And His Hunt For U-Boats

A fascinating account of a dramatic, untold chapter in Ernest Hemingway's life - his passionate pursuit of German U-boats during World War II. From the summer of 1942 until the end of 1943, Ernest Hemingway actively patrolled the Gulf Stream and the waters off Cuba's north shore in his wooden fishing boat, Pilar, looking for German submarines. Hemingway's patrols gave him the opportunity to exercise his well-known taste for bravado, tall tales, and male camaraderie. But he was at the top of his professional game when World War II began, a novelist with wealth, international acclaim, and many works ahead of him. Mort's provocative portrait of one of America's greatest writers reveals why he went to sea and courted death in the high season of his most remarkable life.

Hardcover. English. Scribner. 2009. ISBN: 9781416597865. 272pp. Good condition in hardcover, but ex-library copy. Book No: 49467