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Martha Gellhorn. Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was born in St Louis, Missouri. In 1930, she talked her way into a free passage to Europe and arrived in Paris with seventy-five dollars in her pocket and the conviction that she could earn a living as a foreign correspondent.
Martha Gellhorn: On Apocryphism “Apocryphal, a. Of the apocrypha; of doubtful authenticity; sham, false.” The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925. Apocryphal stories would not be worth worrying about if their inventors stuck to the spoken word.
In Caroline Moorehead’s biography of the swashbuckling journalist Martha Gellhorn, she describes how Gellhorn adopted an Italian orphan after World War II. At first she was smitten, but before long she felt trapped, writing that her son was, “through no act of his own, but because of a careless, inconceivably frivolous and selfish act of mine, making life untenable.”.
For nearly sixty years, Martha Gellhorn traveled the globe to report on the tumult and extremity of life in the twentieth century. The View from the Ground, as Gellhorn explains, “is a selection of articles written during six decades; peace-time reporting. That is to say, the countries in the background were at peace at the moment of writing.
Martha Gellhorn was a fearless war correspondent for nearly fifty years and a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, Gellhorn’s candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people no matter their political ideology, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience.
The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), author, journalist and famed war correspondent, collects in one volume reports the author had previously written for magazines. The reports are about the wars she covered--the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, the Nuremburg Trials, the 1946 Paris Peace Conference, the Indonesian National Revolution, the Six-Day War (the Third Arab-Israeli.
Editorial. Robert S. Fogarty, Chance Encounters Essays. Ralph Keyes, Smoking with Mom Jeffrey Meyers, Lee Miller and Martha Gellhorn: Parallel Lives John Nelson, Birds of the New Eden Sue Parman, A Song for J. R. R. Tolkien Fiction. James Farrow Crumley, The Boy Who Took Forever Noy Holland, At Last the Escalade James S. Kendall, The Plow Patricia Lear, The Fist of Life.