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The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
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The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II--from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent. 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.
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"Although these women covered hard news, delivering scoops about impending military moves, they also wrote human stories that almost certainly would have been underreported had the war been left entirely to male correspondents."
"Sparkling quotations from the reportage are woven throughout ..."
"The focus on the human element, from refugees to soldiers to concentration camp survivors, lends their writing a raw and intimate power."
"Mackrell adopts a you-are-there intimacy as she brings readers behind the front lines ..."
"it is above all the courage and tenacity of Mackrell's subjects that impresses ..."
"Mackrell's approach is to provide a chronological account of the war, and weave in the back stories of her subjects as they enter the action."
"Though the book is occasionally head-spinning in its various layers, with each reporter's timeline tracking against global events, Mackrell is concise with context, sticking to major tactical moves and the waves of optimism and pessimism that animated the Allies ..."
"This is incredibly rich material, and Mackrell makes the most of it ..."
"Group biographies are notoriously hard to write, and there are moments in The Correspondents when Ms."
"It's not just foreign correspondents like me who owe these amazing women a debt."
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