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What exactly happened the night of July 8, 1918, by the Piave River, on the Italian front, to a young, loud, brash American ambulance driver? This Red Cross volunteer should never have been that close to the Austrian trenches just across the water-within hearing distance. What if the wound that Ernest Hemingway suffered that night was an entirely different wound from the mortar-blast wound that he allowed biographers to enshrine as the explanation for his life-long trauma? How might this other wound have festered psychologically, decade after decade, under the pressures and distortions of a hypomanic personality? Join Curtis L. DeBerg in retracing what happened that July night in Italy that saw a young Italian soldier die before Hemingway's eyes - and what happened in the years afterwards, as an unnaturally gifted and sensitive, ferociously combative and disciplined artist wrestled with his inner torments that ended in estrangement from his parents, broken marriages, pain, alcoholism, bitter rivalries, alcoholism and, finally, suicide.

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After thirty-six years as a university business professor, Curtis L. DeBerg retired in 2020. He received his bachelor's degree in business from the University of Northern Iowa in 1979 and joined an international accounting firm as a CPA. After that, he earned a master's degree in economics and a Ph.D. in business administration from Oklahoma State University. DeBerg first became intrigued with Ernest Hemingway when he traveled to Key West in 2005. He suffered critical injuries in a plane crash in 2016 that inspired him to learn more about Ernest Hemingway and to find the opportunity to travel the world in his footsteps. He retired in 2020 to devote his time to researching Hemingway and traveling to the places that were most meaningful to the great author. A native of Rock Rapids, Iowa, DeBerg is a lifelong Minnesota Twins fan. When not traveling, he now shares time between his homes in Miami, Florida and southwest France, where he enjoys sipping fine wine, savoring French baguettes and tasting Spanish tapas.

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