The View from the Ground - Hardcover

Gellhorn, Martha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0140142002 ISBN 13: 9780140142006

Publisher: Penguin Books / Granta, 1989

Synopsis

A collection of essays, organized by decade, from Martha Gellhorn's "peacetime" journalism years in which she has seen the Spanish Civil War, the Italian campaign, the landing at Normandy, the Nurenberg trials and much more. It is, effectively, her autobiography.

About this title

About the Author:

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. She returned to the United States in 1934 and two years later published her acclaimed The Trouble I've Seen. It was at this time that she met Ernest Hemingway, whom she married.
In 1937 she returned to Europe as a war correspondent, and for the first nine years she reported on the wars in Spain, Finland, China and Java and finally from Europe during the Second World War. After 1946 she continued to report on whatever engaged her interest and concern, from Vietnam to the Middle East and the wars in Central America.
As well as her journalism, Martha Gellhorn was the author of novels, collections of stories, novellas, works of non-fiction and a play.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books / Granta
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140142002
• ISBN 13: 9780140142006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480