A Farewell to Arms

On the Italian front of the First World War, an American ambulance officer serving above Gorizia falls in love with an English nurse, and the two flee the collapse of the army toward neutral Switzerland.

Frederic Henry

Gorizia and the Isonzo front

Book 1

Frederic runs ambulances above Gorizia, where the war is a matter of shelling, rain, and talk in the mess. Here he meets Catherine and is badly wounded on the Isonzo, the injury that pulls him back from the front and toward her.

Book 1

explicit Gorizia is named as the town behind the lines where Frederic is quartered; pinned on the real city on the Isonzo (Soča), the river whose battles frame the opening.

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