He was close to Amposta, hiding behind an onion field next to the road to Tortosa. Twenty-four kilometres away, they were fighting fiercely to protect Tortosa, the target of the fascists in their advance towards the sea.” His last report would be on 18 April 1938. He wrote, “At two o’clock this afternoon, Tortosa was almost demolished, evacuated of civilians and not a soldier in sight. He left Barcelona and arrived in Tortosa on 4 April 1938 to report on the defence of the region of Baix Ebre from Franco’s advancing troops. He was one of the last chroniclers to abandon the field of the Battle of the Ebro. During the Spanish Civil War, he worked as a war correspondent and was a propagandist for the republican cause.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is one of the most famous American journalists and writers, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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