The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II

"The women are deftly drawn, and their stories compelling, but their sheer number and the speed with which they are ushered on and off the stage can make Mackrell's account confusing."

"But what comes across is a powerful and convincing picture of the overwhelming struggle these women—and others like them—were forced to endure to make themselves heard ..."

"Mackrell...has organized this chronology with scholarly intensity."

"This is especially fitting given that these particular subjects did not tend to write in the first person: as professional witnesses, they saw others, not themselves, as the true protagonists."

"Mackrell concludes with a brief summary of the women's postwar careers, capping off an exhilarating read packed with emotion and genuine humanity ..."

"The six journalists profiled in The Correspondents deserve credit for their pioneering work."

"[A] dazzling, insightful, engrossing, and multifaceted group biography."

"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."

"The result is a rousing portrait of women who not only reported on history, but made it themselves."

"Mackrell corrects this omission admirably with stories of six of the best ..."