Martha Gellhorn

The author shares her impressions of warfare in Spain, Finland, China, Europe, Vietnam, the Middle East, and Central America

The Face of War

Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic. "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together. Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.

A Memoir

Travels with Myself and Another

Essays written between the thirties and the eighties describe conditions in England, Poland, Israel, Patestine, Spain, Cuba, and South America

The View from the Ground

Mary Douglas, an American journalist working in Prague during 1938, finds herself becoming involved in the predicament of the Nazis' victims

A Stricken Field

Fourteen stories are set in Depression-era America, upscale London, and the highlands of East Africa

The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn

Spanning the years from 1930 to 1996, the correspondence of the acclaimed journalist chronicles Gellhorn's extraordinary career, from the Spanish Civil War to the end of the Cold War, as well as her turbulent marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her friendships with such diverse figures as H. G. Wells, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Leonard Bernstein. 30,000 first printing.

Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Caroline Moorehead

A collection of four heart-rending stories of the Great Depression based on Martha Gellhorn's time as a special correspondent for the Roosevelt White House.

The Trouble I've Seen

De Amerikaanse journaliste doet verslag van vier barre reizen: China begin 1941, het Caribische gebied in 1942, Afrika in 1962 en een week Moskou anno 1972.

Reizen met mijzelf en anderen

Originally published in 1948, this powerful novel follows a U.S. Army infantry battalion in Europe through the last months of the Second World War—through the Battle of the Bulge, the Allied sweep across Germany, and the discovery of the Nazi death camps. Jacob Levy, a young soldier from St. Louis, has never given much thought to politics, world affairs, or his own Jewish heritage, but after the liberation of Dachau, he confronts the horror of the Holocaust and takes his own violent revenge. Jolted into a new understanding of humanity’s connectedness, he comes to terms with his own Jewish identity and grapples with questions of individual moral responsibility that are still contemporary fifty years later. In her afterword, Martha Gellhorn traces the roots of the novel in her own experience as a war correspondent who first heard of the Nazi concentration camps during the Spanish Civil War and herself got to Dachau a week after American soldiers discovered the camp at the end of a village street.

Point of No Return

The Short Novels of Martha Gellhorn

Elizabeth Taylor

Laurie Lee

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Patrick Hamilton

Saki

Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten von der Insel, erzählt von Saki, Laurie Lee, Martha Gellhorn, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Taylor, Patrick Hamilton und Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Weihnachtsgeschichten von der Insel

Merry Christmas

Author's selection from her reporting on wars in progress and wars about to be, during eight years in twelve countries, when she worked as a correspondent for "Colliers."

A collection of three novellas about Europeans in East Africa written by journalist and former wife of Ernest Hemmingway, Martha Gellhorn.

Three Novellas

The Weather in Africa

Dalle notti madrilene squarciate dalle bombe della Guerra civile spagnola, nel 1936, alle guerre in America Latina degli anni novanta, percorrendo le paludi del Vietnam e battendo i deserti del Medio Oriente, "I volti della guerra" narra le storie - di ferocia, amore e sofferenza - dei despoti e delle vittime dei conflitti del secolo scorso. Martha Gellhorn - antesignana delle corrispondenti di guerra, tra i primi a testimoniare l'orrore del campo di concentramento di Dachau - ha raccontato, con i suoi reportage, i fronti più caldi del XX secolo. Una scrittura immediata e realistica - sensibile ai suoni, agli odori, alle parole, ai gesti dei luoghi visitati - e un'infallibile capacità di cogliere e custodire l'estrema varietà di esperienze vissute hanno dato forma alla "visione umana del mondo" della grande reporter. Questo libro è ormai un classico del giornalismo moderno. Martha Gellhorn l'ha scritto non perché fosse interessata ai generali e ai politici, ma perché coltivava un forte impegno nei confronti della gente normale che dalle guerre viene schiacciata.

I Volti Della Guerra

Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all female war correspondents. Her career tracked many of the flashpoints of the 20th century: she witnessed at first hand the Depression in the south of the United States; the Spanish Civil War; and more. This book features a selection of her intimate letters.

The Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Pretty Tales for Tired People

A US soldier confronts the horrors of the Holocaust in this New York Times–bestselling novel from acclaimed WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn. Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, Jacob Levy is a typical American boy. He never gives much thought to world affairs—or to his Jewish heritage. But when the United States joins the Allied effort to stop Hitler, Jacob’s life and sense of identity are on course to change forever. As a soldier in the last months of World War II, Jacob lives through the Battle of the Bulge and the discovery of Nazi concentration camps. Witnessing the liberation of Dachau, he confronts a level of cruelty beyond his own imaginings, and the shock transforms him in ways he never thought possible. One of the first female war correspondents of the twentieth century, Martha Gellhorn visited Dachau a week after its discovery by American soldiers. A New York Times bestseller when it was first published, this powerful novel grapples with the horrors of war and dilemmas of moral responsibility that are just as relevant today. This ebook features an afterword by the author.

A Novel

Dengang blev hun kendt som Ernest Hemingways kone. Men gennem de otte år frem til 1945, de to dannede par, skrev Martha Gellhorn sig ud af sin mands skygge. Som hun sagde mange år senere: »Jeg var forfatter, før jeg mødte ham, og jeg var forfatter, efter at jeg forlod ham.« Hun ville ikke være en fodnote i et andet menneskes liv. Som kvindelig krigskorrespondent måtte Martha Gellhorn også kæmpe for sin position i et fag fyldt med mænd, der skrev om mænd i krig. »Jeg fulgte krigen, hvor end jeg kunne komme i nærheden af den,« sagde hun om sit arbejde. Underforstået at det i sig selv var en kamp for én som hende. I juni 1944 gik hun således om bord som blind passager på et hospitalsskib på vej til Normandiet for at komme frem og dække D-dag fra inferno på invasionsstrandene. Hvad hun gjorde som eneste kvindelige journalist. Martha Gellhorns Krigens ansigt er en reportageklassiker om otte års bitter verdenshistorie, indrammet af Madrid under faldende granater i 1937 og Dachau ved München efter befrielsen af de udmarvede kz-fanger i 1945. I øjebliksbilleder fra krigens kaos registrerer Martha Gellhorn mennesket i midten; dets sult, smerte, forvirring og apati, dets forbløffende fejhed og uforklarlige mod. Det er stor fortællekunst og original reportage, der satte standarder i journalistikken og skabte Martha Gellhorn et navn blandt de største krigskorrespondenter i det 20. århundrede.

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