the devastation in europe was on a scale unimaginable bios and unexperienced by us. unexperienced by us. dos passos was much more like them. he had european roots, portuguese descent. dos passos was in spain long before hemingway could find it on the map. so great.ence is there is a psychic connection, but in many ways, europeans were more wordless. the scale of death -- we opened up a century of war with the mechanization of death. dos passos, it may have been easier for him to handle. >> i love that this is the question we are going to end on. i would suggest if you haven't junger, he was a german military author who said our ernest hemingway was ernst junger. it was a global war. and here at the museum, our collection began in 1920. end onto and on the -- the postscript of your book, the ambulance drivers. i thought it was stunningly beautiful. ofmight not have ever heard ernest hemingway had it not teen for an italian soldier who was killed taking the brunt of the foroding -- had it not been an italian soldier who was killed taking the brunt of the exploding mort