

In fact, certain basic information isnt alluded to in the book at all, as it was once common knowledge. Thus it contains numerous references to people and places, governments and fronts that Hemingway could safely assume his audience would recognize. But his son apparently knew the combination the pair had also reportedly gone to the shooting range together. A Farewell to Arms is set against the historical and geographical background of World War I. When police visited the suspect's home, they found a safe that his father said was used to hold the firearms. Officers found the suspect had two pistols with him, weapons that were registered to his father, Gašić said, according to the Danas news site. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, To Eleanor Havre from her friend Ernest Hemingway Paris. Police detained the suspect's father after the school shooting, Interior Minister Bratislav Gašić said. Video footage from the scene showed a commotion outside the primary school in central Belgrade as police removed the suspect, his head covered as officers led him to a car. By then, the suspect had gone to the schoolyard to wait for officers to arrive.

The first call to police from the school came from its deputy principal, reporting the violence - but Milić said a second call came from the suspect himself, who told police he had just shot several people. The attack was likely planned at least a month in advance, he said. First edition, first printing, first issue lacking the disclaimer on page x. Milić also displayed an image of a handwritten paper, listing students the suspect wanted to target, along with a sketch of the school's layout.
