The correspondents : six women writers on the front lines of World War II /

"A group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II. 'I am going to Spain with the boys, ' Martha Gellhorn wrote. 'I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them.' On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mackrell, Judith (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Berlin, 1936
  • Madrid, 1937
  • Madrid and Salamanca, 1937
  • The League of Nations, Geneva, 1934-7
  • Sudetenland, 1937-8
  • Munich, 1938-9
  • Poland, Finland and London, autumn 1939
  • The fall of France, spring/summer 1940
  • Britain under fire, London, autumn 1940
  • Athens and Cairo, 1940-41
  • London, Algiers and Monte Cassino, 1941-3
  • D-Day, 1944
  • The liberation of Paris, 1944
  • The Battle of the Bulge, winter 1944-5
  • The fall of the Reich, spring 1945
  • Buchenwald, Dachau and Nuremberg, 1945
  • Aftermath.