The Women Who Wrote the War

The Women Who Wrote the War Book Description

"They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought a fresh view to the battlefields of World War II. Their experience was at once wide-ranging and intimate, devastating at one moment, heartwarming the next. In their ranks we encounter world-famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only Western photographer to cover the Nazi invasion of the USSR; Martha Gellhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway, who presciently reported on the menace of fascism; the New Yorker's Janet Flanner, recording the bleak realities of life in post-liberation France; and Marguerite Higgins, who dared enter the concentration camp at Dachau just ahead of the American army. Nancy Sorel weaves together the lives and times of these fearless, dashing, and eccentric women, assuring them their rightful place in history."--Page 4 of cover.