The G. I. And The General / The Wounds Of Paris in Collier's Weekly Magazine

Entire issue, November 4, 1944, in original wraps, light general wear, occasional minor white smudges noted at front wrap, shallow chipping at top edge, rear outer corner chipped away about 1-inch, mailing label Hemingway's fifth contribution to Collier's, this one cabled from France, in which he presents a first-hand account of Allied troops preparing for battle with the Germans. Issue also includes The Wounds Of Paris, by Martha Gellhorn (married to Hemingway at the time) who contributed from Paris where she was on assignment for Collier's as a war correspondent. In this piece, Gellhorn talks of the underground passages at Ivry, once used by the French as fortifications, now used as a prison by the Nazis, and of the torture cells around the city, including graphic descriptions of several methods of torture. From the Hemingway, "The wheat was ripe but there was no one there to cut it now, and tank tracks led through it to where the tanks lay pushed into the hedge that topped the ridge that looked across the wooden country to the hill we would have to take tomorrow. There was no one between us and the Germans in that wooded country and on the hill," and the Gellhorn, "In Paris the prisons and torture chambers and cemeteries equal the bombed and gutted houses of London. There was no high explosive here, and we tend to forget there are things which perhaps are worse than high explosive." See Hanneman C335. Scarce.…