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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780802128744
- Book Title
- Face of War
- Publisher
- GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, History
- Topic
- Military / General, Europe / Spain & Portugal, General
- Item Weight
- 15.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802128742
ISBN-13
9780802128744
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038723145
Product Key Features
Book Title
Face of War
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Military / General, Europe / Spain & Portugal, General
Genre
Literary Criticism, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Praise for Martha Gellhorn and The Face of War : "One of the most fearless, determined and talented journalists ever to have covered wars." -- Wall Street Journal "[Gellhorn was] a heroine to generations of young women correspondents for her fight to get equal treatment and a place on the front lines with male colleagues." -- New York Times "Gellhorn felt her duty as a journalist was to bear witness . . . She told stories not of generals and politicians, but of powerless people--the victims of war." -- NPR "There is a hard, shining, almost cruel honesty to Gellhorn's work that brings back shellshocked Barcelona, Helsinki, Canton and Bastogne--the prelude and crashing symphony of World War II--with almost unbearable vividness." -- Guardian (UK), Praise for Martha Gellhorn and The Face of War : "One of the most fearless, determined and talented journalists ever to have covered wars." -- Wall Street Journal "[Gellhorn was] a heroine to generations of young women correspondents for her fight to get equal treatment and a place on the front lines with male colleagues." -- New York Times "Gellhorn felt her duty as a journalist was to bear witness . . . She told stories not of generals and politicians, but of powerless people--the victims of war." -- NPR "There is a hard, shining, almost cruel honesty to Gellhorn's work that brings back shellshocked Barcelona, Helsinki, Canton and Bastogne--the prelude and crashing symphony of World War II--with almost unbearable vividness." -- Guardian (UK) "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." -- Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times "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." --Merle Rubin, The Christian Science Monitor "First-rate frontline journalism by a woman singularly unafraid of guns." -- Vanity Fair "An eloquent, unforgettable history of a chaotic century." --Jeffrey Rodgers, The San Francisco Chronicle "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." --Bill Buford, Granta "A vivid, militant book by an intense and merciful writer." --Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly "One of the best correspondents whom the War produced, and today her articles are as fresh as striped shirts returned from the wash." -- The New Statesman "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." -- Saturday Review "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." -- Publishers Weekly "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." --Gloria Emerson
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
940.5
Synopsis
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 Science Monitor, "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.", Martha Gellhorn was a fearless war correspondent for nearly fifty years and a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people no matter their political ideology, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "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." Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. Collecting the best of Gellhorn's pieces on foreign conflicts and now with a new introduction by Lauren Elkin, The Face of War is what the New York Times called "a brilliant anti-war book" and has become a classic., A reissue, with a new introduction by Fl'neuse author Lauren Elkin, of Martha Gellhorn's enduring collection of war reportage, The Face of War
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