BY: Nick Squires
Blown to bits by a mortar during the First World War, he unwittingly saved the life of a young Ernest Hemingway, but his identity has been a mystery for more than 100 years – until now. Historians believe they have put a name to an Italian soldier who bore the brunt of the mortar explosion, in doing so saving the life of the man who would later give the world A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and other classics.
Hemingway was just 18 and serving as a Red Cross volunteer on the Austro-Italian front when he had his brush with death on a section of the battleground which ran along the Piave River in the Dolomites. As he was handing out cigarettes and chocolate to Italian soldiers in the trenches, Austro-Hungarian forces lobbed a mortar which badly wounded the young American and killed outright an Italian soldier standing close to him.
SOURCE: https://www.telegraph.co.uk
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