Martha Gellhorn : a life / Caroline Moorehead.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2003Description: viii, 550 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0701169516
- 9780701169510
- 070.92 21
- 070.4333092 22
- PN4874.G348 M67 2003
- Also issued online.
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 070.4333092 GEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A378297B |
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070.433308209044 COL Where the action was : women war correspondents in World War II / | 070.4333092 ARN Live from the battlefield : from Vietnam to Baghdad : 35 years in the world's war zones / | 070.4333092 DIG Ghosts by daylight : love, war, and redemption / | 070.4333092 GEL Martha Gellhorn : a life / | 070.4333092 KEA All of these people : a memoir / | 070.4333092 PAL Fifty years at the front : the life of war correspondent Frederick Palmer / | 070.43330922 AND Witnesses to war : the history of Australian conflict reporting / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This is a new biography of Martha Gellhorn, whose fearless reporting from the front made her a legend, and whose private life was often messy and volcanic. Her determination to be a war correspondent - and her conspicuous success - contributed to the breakdown of her already stormy marriage to Ernest Hemingway." "Martha Gellhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century. As a young woman, she was a witness of the suffering in America caused by the Depression. She risked her life in the Spanish Civil War, which was the subject of some of her finest writing. During the Second World War she covered the fall of Czechoslovakia and the Normandy Landings, the liberation of Dachau and the Nuremberg Trials. She reported from Vietnam and Israel; and at the age of 81 was covering the US invasion of Panama." "All her life, Martha fought against injustice, and she always looked for the human story. She was influenced by two older women: her mother, who was a social reformer, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Her books of reporting and travel reflected her personality and her courage, her novels her shrewd and ironic eye; both were often very funny. Martha's letters (many of which are quoted in this biography) are delightful - passionate, ebullient and no-holds-barred."--BOOK JACKET.
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