The correspondents, six women writers on the front lines of World War II, Judith Mackrell
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The correspondents, six women writers on the front lines of World War II, Judith Mackrell
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 735-739)
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The correspondents
Nature of contents
bibliography
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1284918656
Responsibility statement
Judith Mackrell
Series statement
Thorndike Press large print history fact and fiction
Sub title
six women writers on the front lines of World War II
Summary
"On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men. The Correspondents follows six remarkable women as their lives and careers intertwined: Martha Gellhorn, who got the scoop on Ernest Hemingway on D-Day by traveling to Normandy as a stowaway on a Red Cross ship; Lee Miller, who went from being a Vogue cover model to the magazine's official war correspondent; Sigrid Schultz, who hid her Jewish identity and risked her life by reporting on the Nazi regime; Virginia Cowles, a "society girl columnist" turned combat reporter; Clare Hollingworth, the first English journalist to break the news of World War II; and Helen Kirkpatrick, the first woman to report from an Allied war zone with equal privileges to men. From chasing down sources and narrowly dodging gunfire to conducting tumultuous love affairs and socializing with luminaries like Eleanor Roosevelt, Picasso, and Man Ray , these six women are captured in all their complexity. With her gripping, intimate, and nuanced portrait, Judith Mackrell celebrates these courageous reporters who risked their lives for the scoop. ("--, Provided by publisher
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- Biographies
- Cowles, Virginia
- Military campaigns
- War correspondents
- Women war correspondents -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 + Campaigns -- Europe
- World War, (1939-1945)
- Large print books.?2lcgft
- 1900-1999
- Europe
- Hollingworth, Clare
- War photographers
- Journalists
- War photographers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- Journalists
- Miller, Lee, 1907-1977
- Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997
- Schultz, Sigrid Lillian
- Large type books
- Women photographers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- War correspondents -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Press coverage
- Large print books
- Women war correspondents
- Women photographers
- Large type books
- World War, 1939-1945 + Press coverage -- Europe
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre4
- Subject28
- Biographies
- Cowles, Virginia
- Military campaigns
- War correspondents
- Women war correspondents -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 + Campaigns -- Europe
- World War, (1939-1945)
- Large print books.?2lcgft
- 1900-1999
- Europe
- Hollingworth, Clare
- War photographers
- Journalists
- War photographers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- Journalists
- Miller, Lee, 1907-1977
- Kirkpatrick, Helen Paull, 1909-1997
- Schultz, Sigrid Lillian
- Large type books
- Women photographers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- War correspondents -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Press coverage
- Large print books
- Women war correspondents
- Women photographers
- Large type books
- World War, 1939-1945 + Press coverage -- Europe
- Content1
- Author1
- Is Part Of2
- Mapped to1