13 research outputs found
The Americans Drifting to Paris: 1944
Details Hemingway’s exploits following his return to London as a war correspondent in spring 1944, including the ending of his turbulent marriage to third wife Martha Gellhorn, blossoming of his relationship with Mary Welsh, and Gellhorn’s trumping of other war correspondents, including Hemingway, with her onshore reporting of the D-Day invasion at Normandy
The Hotel on Place Vendôme: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris
History of Paris’s iconic Hôtel Ritz, focusing on World War II and the German occupation. Frequent references to Hemingway throughout
Ernest Hemingway and the Ritz Liberated
Covers Hemingway’s liberation of the Ritz and its wine cellars at the closing of the German occupation, describing the party atmosphere after Hemingway and his “irregulars” took over the luxury hotel
Those Dame Reporters: August 26, 1944
Details Hemingway’s Parisian rambles following the liberation, meeting up with old friends and acquaintances such as Sylvia Beach and Pablo Picasso
The Press Corps and the Race to Paris
On Hemingway’s competitive desire to be the first journalist back at the Hôtel Ritz following the occupation. Details Hemingway’s combat and drinking exploits with his band of “irregulars,” skirmishes with war photographer Robert Capa, and growing interest in Mary Welsh