
Ernest Hemingway Meets Colonel Park and Discusses The Human Condition – Belgium, October, 1944
” Have you got a drink anywhere in this place, Colonel”?

” Have you got a drink anywhere in this place, Colonel”?
Private Buckley finds Ernest Hemingway on a park bench in Paris reading the poetry of Robert Frost…
He also remembers Spain and novelist Michael Arlen…
Hemingway never really forgave himself for the incident at Wassigny…
Sylvia Beach – the owner of the bookshop Shakespeare & Co – was one of the first people to befriend Ernest Hemingway when he came to Paris in the 1920s. Would she still be there in 1944?
Rudolf Hess, was Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, this did not make him the designated successor to Adolf Hitler should any misfortune him befall him, that was always going to be Hermann Goering, but he was without question third in-line.
The Paris that Hemingway discovered in 1944 had, on the surface, changed very little.
Evil takes many different forms. When it is committed in the sober light of day, when it is committed for the advancement of the human race, at least in the eyes of its perpetrator, it becomes more than the evil act of any one individual but speaks to us of the barbarism of the human race.
Hemingway then pulled the pins from three hand-grenades, waited a moment, and then bounced the grenades down the cellar steps…
On the 29th June, 1944, Hemingway takes to the skies in search of V1s…