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The correspondents : six women writers on the front lines of World War II / Judith Mackrell.

Mackrell, Judith, (author.).

Summary:
A gripping group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II. "I am going to Spain with the boys," Martha Gellhorn wrote. "I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them." On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a war correspondent for the magazine; Martha Gellhorn, the third wife of Ernest Hemingway and a novelist in her own right; Sigrid Schultz, an indisputably brave journalist who withstood surveillance, interrogation, and death threats in order to publish the truth from Berlin; Virginia Cowles, whose career as a 'society girl columnist' turned combat reporter began with an exclusive interview with Mussolini; Clare Hollingworth, who had almost no professional experience when she became the first correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II; and Helen Kirkpatrick, a reporter so admired by the military that at the order of General Eisenhower she was the first woman to report from an Allied war zone with equal privileges to men. The Correspondents paints a vivid, intimate, and nuanced portrait of these pioneering women, from chasing down sources to conducting clandestine love affairs. With her riveting and meticulous history, Judith Mackrell reconsiders the narrative of the war from a new perspective.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385547666 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0385547668 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xxi, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as Going with the Boys by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London, in 2021"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-409) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Berlin, 1936: Sigrid Schultz -- Madrid, 1937: Martha Gellhorn -- Madrid and Salamanca, 1937: Virginia Cowles -- The League of Nations, Geneva, 1934-7: Helen Kirkpatrick -- Sudetenland, 1937-8: Martha Gellhorn -- Munich, 1938-9: Duff Cooper to Virginia Cowles -- Poland, Finland and London, Autumn 1939: Clare Hollingworth -- The fall of France, Spring/Summer 1940: Virginia Cowles -- Britain, under fire, London, Autumn, 1940: Lee Miller -- Athens and Cairo, 1940-41: Clare Hollingworth -- London, Algiers and Monte Cassino, 1941-3: Lee Miller -- D-Day, 1944: Martha Gellhorn -- The liberation of Paris, 1944: Helen Kirkpatrick -- The Battle of the Bulge, Winter, 1944-5: Martha Gellhorn -- The fall of the Reich, Spring, 1945: Lee Miller -- Buchenwald, Dachau and Nuremberg, 1945: Lee Miller -- Aftermath: Clare Hollingworth
Subject: Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998.
Miller, Lee, 1907-1977.
Schultz, Sigrid Lillian.
Cowles, Virginia.
Hollingworth, Clare.
Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997.
World War, 1939-1945 > Press coverage > Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 > Europe > Journalists.
Women war correspondents > Europe > History > 20th century.
War correspondents > Europe > History > 20th century.
War photographers > Europe > History > 20th century.
Women photographers > Europe > History > 20th century.

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Albright Memorial Library 070.4 MACKRELL (Text) 50686016107661 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cambria County Library 070.449 M159c (Text) 85131001828491 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Coudersport Public Library 070.4 MAC (Text) 30183000959401 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults 070.4 MAC Nonfiction (Text) 34001001406295 Adult Area Checked Out 04/15/2024
Exeter Community Library 070.4499 MAC (Text) 33249025312566 Non-fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 070.4 MACKRELL (Text)
Memorial: This book is donated in memory of Peggy Weikel by the Friday Afternoon Literary Club
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Glatfelter Memorial Library Adults 070.4 MAC Nonfiction (Text) 34216001006545 Adult Area Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 070.4/499405309252 (Text) 92525000 GFWM Main Room Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 070.4 Mackrell History (Text) 39427103633673 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
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