The correspondents : six women writers on the front lines of World War II
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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company Gale Cengage Learning, 2022.
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Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
Status
Sequim - Large Print Nonfiction
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company Gale Cengage Learning, 2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
745 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Street Date
2203
Language
English

Notes

General Note
"The text of this large print edition is unabridged. Other aspects of the book may vary from the original edition."
General Note
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as Going with the Boys by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London, in 2021."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 735-739).
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"On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men. The Correspondents follows six remarkable women as their lives and careers intertwined: Martha Gellhorn, who got the scoop on Ernest Hemingway on D-Day by traveling to Normandy as a stowaway on a Red Cross ship; Lee Miller, who went from being a Vogue cover model to the magazine's official war correspondent; Sigrid Schultz, who hid her Jewish identity and risked her life by reporting on the Nazi regime; Virginia Cowles, a "society girl columnist" turned combat reporter; Clare Hollingworth, the first English journalist to break the news of World War II; and Helen Kirkpatrick, the first woman to report from an Allied war zone with equal privileges to men. From chasing down sources and narrowly dodging gunfire to conducting tumultuous love affairs and socializing with luminaries like Eleanor Roosevelt, Picasso, and Man Ray , these six women are captured in all their complexity. With her gripping, intimate, and nuanced portrait, Judith Mackrell celebrates these courageous reporters who risked their lives for the scoop. ("--,Provided by publisher.