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An inch or two, in one direction or another, and the mortar shell that exploded in an Allied trench in Italy on July 8, 1918, would have killed a teenage Red Cross worker.
Instead, Ernest Hemingway survived with more than 200 shrapnel wounds though he was hit in the leg and foot by machine-gun bullets as he was stretchered away.
That trauma shaped his life, we were told in the first episode of Hemingway (BBC4), a reverential six-part biography by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
In a reverential six-part documentary, the co-directors Lynn Novick and Ken Burns examine the life and works of writer Ernest Hemingway (pictured) - a giant of American literature