![]() ![]() Both sides agreed to an armistice on November 11, 1918. into the conflict (by which time Russia had withdrawn and Italy was effectively defeated), the Great War ended in victory for the Allies. Largely as a result of the entry of the U.S. The war pitted the Central Powers (Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire) against the allied forces of Great Britain, France, Russia, and Italy, who were joined in 1917 by the United States. ![]() Some necessary historical background: World War I (or the Great War, as it was known at the time) began in August 1914 with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Most readers would agree that he rose to that challenge and perhaps surpassed it. Hemingway took on an enormous challenge when he wrote this, his first full-length novel. What's remarkable about this book - truly radical, really - is the fact that it features no scenes of battle whatsoever (not even in flashback) and no love scenes. Like Hemingway's later novel A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises offers the reader two stories in one: a war story and a love story. ![]()
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