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Author Mackrell, Judith, author

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

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 Maine State Lib. Stacks  OFFSITE 920.7 M159c 2021    AVAILABLE  
 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  070.4499.M246c    AVAILABLE  
Edition First American edition
Phys Descr xxi, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note BPL: Robert T. Lawrence Fund.
"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
Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-409) and index
Summary "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 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 meticulous history, Judith Mackrell reconsiders the narrative of the war from a new perspective"-- Provided by publisher
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
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
Alt Title Going with the boys
Six women writers on the front lines of World War II
Other Form Online version: Mackrell, Judith, The correspondents London ; [New York] : Picador, 2021. 9780385547697 (DLC) 2021001390
OCLC # 1232013651
ISBN # 9780385547666
0385547668