Face of War (eBook)

Martha Gellhorn (Autor)

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2018
360 Seiten
Grove Atlantic (Verlag)
978-0-8021-9116-8 (ISBN)

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A collection of "e;first-rate frontline journalism"e; from the Spanish Civil War to US actions in Central America "e;by a woman singularly unafraid of guns"e; (Vanity Fair). For nearly sixty years, Martha Gellhorn's fearless war correspondence made her a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the Central American wars of the mid-eighties, Gellhorn's candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people regardless of their political ideology. Collecting the best of Gellhorn's writing on foreign conflicts, and now with a new introduction by Lauren Elkin, The Face of War is a classic of frontline journalism by "e;the premier war correspondent of the twentieth century"e; (Ward Just, The New York Times Magazine). Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. "e;I wrote very fast, as I had to,"e; she says, "e;afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place."e; As Merle Rubin noted in his review of this volume for The Christian ScienceMonitor, "e;Martha Gellhorn's courageous, independent-minded reportage breaks through geopolitical abstractions and ideological propaganda to take the reader straight to the scene of the event."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-8021-9116-9 / 0802191169
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9116-8 / 9780802191168