Martha Gellhorn. (2014). The Face of War. Grove Atlantic.

Martha Gellhorn. 2014. The Face of War. Grove Atlantic.

Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War. Grove Atlantic, 2014.

Martha Gellhorn. The Face of War. Grove Atlantic, 2014.

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     Martha Gellhorn was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1908. She dropped out of Bryn Mawr to pursue a career in journalism. Gellhorn spent time living in Paris; documented the Great Depression for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration; traveled with her future husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War; and journeyed to Western Europe to cover World War II. Her reporting career was distinguished and lengthy, as she also covered the Vietnam War and conflicts in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Panama. An author of both fiction and nonfiction, her works include the memoir Travels with Myself and Another and the novels Point of No Return, What Mad Pursuit, and The Trouble I’ve Seen. She died in 1998.
      
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A collection of “first-rate frontline journalism” from the Spanish Civil War to US actions in Central America “by a woman singularly unafraid of guns” (Vanity Fair).
 
For nearly sixty years, Martha Gellhorn’s fearless war correspondence made her a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the Central American wars of the mid-eighties, Gellhorn’s candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people regardless of their political ideology. Collecting the best of Gellhorn’s writing on foreign conflicts, and now with a new introduction by Lauren Elkin, The Face of War is a classic of frontline journalism by “the premier war correspondent of the twentieth century” (Ward Just, The New York Times Magazine).
 
Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. “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.” As Merle Rubin noted in his review of this volume for The Christian ScienceMonitor, “Martha Gellhorn’s courageous, independent-minded reportage breaks through geopolitical abstractions and ideological propaganda to take the reader straight to the scene of the event.”

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   • source: Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
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     “A brilliant anti-war book that is as fresh as if written for this morning. Seldom can a correspondent assemble past writings from various locations and watch a clear pattern emerge, yet her pieces fall into place in a grand design. Her opinions, because they are rooted in these finely drawn scenes deserve to be read by many people."

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   • source: Merle Rubin, The Christian Science Monitor
   • content: “Martha Gellhorn's courageous, independent-minded reportage breaks through geopolitical abstractions and ideological propaganda to take the reader straight to the scene of the event. Whether she is covering the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Eichmann trial, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, or Central America, there is the same commitment to telling the truth as she has found it, the same sense of moral commitment to the value of human lives, the same fine indignation and passionate outrage at wrongdoing wherever she finds it."
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   • source: Vanity Fair
   • content: “First-rate frontline journalism by a woman singularly unafraid of guns."
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   • source: Jeffrey Rodgers, The San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: “An eloquent, unforgettable history of a chaotic century."
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   • source: Bill Buford, Granta
   • content: “Reading Martha Gellhorn for the first time is a staggering experience: How is it possible to have been so ignorant for so long of a writer who has written so passionately about so much--the terrible victory of Franco, the fall of Czechoslovakia, of Poland, the liberation of Paris from the Nazis, the brutality of the civil war in El Salvador? She is not a travel writer, or a journalist or a novelist: She is all of these, and one of the most eloquent witnesses of the twentieth century."
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   • source: Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly
   • content: “A vivid, militant book by an intense and merciful writer."
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   • source: The New Statesman
   • content: “One of the best correspondents whom the War produced, and today her articles are as fresh as striped shirts returned from the wash."
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   • source: Saturday Review
   • content: “One great value of the book is that to the young who have not known war firsthand it will show the price paid in human misery when men seek to settle their disputes by force."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: “Compelling . . . [Gellhorn's essays] bear witness to horrifying atrocities, but they also delight with lyrical prose, touches of humor and a well-drawn thrill or two that the author experienced firsthand."
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    • source: Gloria Emerson
    • content: “The generous anger, the courage, the energy, and her wonderful voice as a writer: all this makes Gellhorn a national treasure and how she would hate such a label. No other woman has given us such a record of the brutal, and astonishing, events of this century. Once sent to cover a war I had only to read Gellhorn's writing again to understand what should be done, what must be borne. She is heroic."
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      Starred review from January 1, 2016
      

      War correspondent Gellhorn reported from battlefronts for nearly 50 years. The Spanish Civil War, Vietnam, the Panama Invasion, she reported on them all firsthand and in vivid detail. This amazing, grim memoir demonstrates how people in war can come to represent ideals, even though their beliefs may be as varied as their personalities.

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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