Title
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
Document Type
Book
Annotation
History/biography of the lives and intersecting careers of six women war correspondents reporting from the front, including Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, and Clare Hollingsworth. Mackrell focuses on Gellhorn's reporting from 1936 through 1945, including her coverage of the Spanish Civil War, D-Day landings, and Nuremberg trials. Concludes with a brief account of Gellhorn's postwar years. Draws on biographies, histories, letters, interviews, and published and unpublished works. Includes index. References to Hemingway throughout
Date
2021
COinS
Citation
Mackrell, Judith. The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II. New York: Doubleday, 2021.