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Cargando... The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-Boatspor Terry Mort
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From the summer of 1942 until the end of 1943, Ernest Hemingway spent much of his time patrolling the Gulf Stream and the waters off Cuba's north shore in his fishing boat, Pilar. He was looking for German submarines. These patrols were sanctioned and managed by the US Navy and were a small but useful part of anti-submarine warfare at a time when U boat attacks against merchant shipping in the Gulf and the Caribbean were taking horrific tolls. While almost no attention has been paid to these patrols, other than casual mention in biographies, they were a useful military contribution as well as a central event (to Hemingway) around which important historical, literary, and biographical themes revolve. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I did actually enjoy Terry Mort's book quite a bit though due to his overall research on U-Boats and the Gulf and Caribbean theatres of World War II and on Hemingway's and Gellhorn's lives before and after their 1940-45 marriage. There were all kinds of tidbits and trivia that were interesting and Mort's description of sea-borne navigation by the stars was very evocative.
The logs of Hemingway's boat Pilar were quite sloppily kept and no great revelations come from there. The single longest entry of a possible distant U-boat sighting is quoted and is quite matter-of-fact. Whether Hemingway was just getting rare war-time fuel for his pleasure boat, gathering research for a future book (which somewhat materialized in the final section of "Islands in the Stream") or occasionally just creating a Boy's Own Adventure for his sons, his joy of the sea comes through in Terry Mort's book.
So along with Erika Robuck's "Hemingway's Girl", Paul Hendrickson's "Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961" and, as Norman Mailer said when introducing Ernest Hemingway's youngest son Gregory's "Papa: A Personal Memoir", this is another book you can put in the column of "finally a book about Hemingway where you don't have to decide he is a son-of-a-bitch."
p.s. If you do want some Hemingway vs. Nazi spies there is always the fictional "The Crook Factory" by Dan Simmons. ( )