Format:
ix, 491
,
21 cm
Edition:
Grove Atlantic edition
ISBN:
0802128742
,
9780802128744
Content:
Introduction, 2018 -- Introduction, 1986 -- Introduction, 1959 -- The war in Spain. High explosive for everyone ; The besieged city ; The third winter -- The war in Finland. Bombs on Helsinki ; The Karelian front -- The war in China. The Canton front -- The Second World War. The bomber boys ; Three ples ; Visit Italy ; The first hospital ship ; The Carpathian lancers ; The gothic line ; A little Dutch town ; The Batle of the Bulge ; The black widow ; Das Deutsche Volk ; The Russians ; Dachau -- The war in Java. Java journey -- Interim. The pats of glory ; They talked of peace -- The war in Vietnam. A new kind of war ; Orphans of all ages ; Saigon conversation piece ; Open arms for the Vietcong ; The uprooted ; Real war and the war of words ; Postscript ; "Suffer the little children..." ; Last words onVietnam, 1987 -- The Six-Day War. Casualties and propaganda ; Why the refugees ran ; Thoughts on a sacred cow --The war in Central America. Rule by terror ; "We are not little mice" -- Conclusion..
Content:
"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, her candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people no matter their political ideology, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "I wrote very fast, as I had to," she says, "afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place." Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. Collecting the best of Gellhorn's pieces on foreign conflicts and now with a new introduction by Lauren Elkin, The Face of War is what the New York Times called "a brilliant anti-war book" and has become a classic."--Amazon.com
Note:
"...first published in 1959 in the United States by Simon & Schuster and in Great Britain by Hart Davis"--Title page verso
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802191168
Language:
English
Keywords:
Gellhorn, Martha 1908-1998
;
Kriegsberichterstattung
;
Geschichte 1936-1985
;
Quelle
Author information:
Gellhorn, Martha 1908-1998
Author information:
Elkin, Lauren 1978-
