Ernest Hemingway: Reporting on the Spanish Civil War

“We made our way through the town, the main street blocked by broken houses and a smashed water main, and, stopping, tried to get a policeman to shoot a wounded horse…”

Photo by Robert Capa

Ernest Hemingway was, in 1938, a top dollar novelist and short story writer, big game hunter and fisherman, bull fighting aficionado, expert drinker, poor playwright, almost married for the third time, and…