Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gelhorn, in hospital after a car accident, London, 1944. The photograph was taken by Robert Capa, a friend of Hemingway. It can be seen that the writer's rear end was not damaged in the accident. Another fact is that hospital gowns are a timeless design. There are publications that indicate that the girl was not Martha Gelhorn but Elaine Fisher, Capa's girlfriend until the end of the war. Before the Normandy landings, Capa threw an epic party in London. The appendicitis operation of his girlfriend, Elaine Fisher, whom everyone called Pinky, had gone well. A few days earlier, an old friend from his partying in Spain, Ernest Hemingway, had arrived in town, and of course he invited him along. The booze ran out around four in the morning, so Hemingway and another man decided to go and get more booze in a car. They were so drunk that they crashed the car into a water tank. Hemingway flew through the windscreen and spent several days in hospital...