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The correspondents six women writers on the front lines of World War II

"A 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...

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Main Author: Mackrell, Judith (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Edition: First American edition.
Subjects:
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.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Berlin, 1936
  • Madrid, 1937
  • Madrid and Salamanca, 1937
  • The League of Nations, Geneva, 1934-7
  • Sudetenland, 1937-8
  • Munich, 1938-9
  • Poland, Finland and London, autumn 1939
  • The fall of France, spring/summer 1940
  • Britain under fire, London, autumn 1940
  • Athens and Cairo, 1940-41
  • London, Algiers and Monte Cassino, 1941-3
  • D-Day, 1944
  • The liberation of Paris, 1944
  • The Battle of the Bulge, winter 1944-5
  • The fall of the Reich, spring 1945
  • Buchenwald, Dachau and Nuremberg, 1945
  • Aftermath.

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