A Stricken Field

ISBN-13: 9780226286969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 328 str.

Martha Gellhorn; Caroline Moorehead

Opis

Martha Gellhorn was one of the first and most widely read female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she was also an acclaimed novelist.In 1938, before the Munich pact, Gellhorn visited Prague and witnessed its transformation from a proud democracy preparing to battle Hitler to a country occupied by the German army. Born out of this experience, " A Stricken Field" follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to obtain help for the refugees and to convey the shocking state of the country both frustrating and futile. A convincing account of a people under the brutal oppression of the Gestapo, "A Stricken Field" is Gellhorn s most powerful work of fiction. A] brave, final novel. Its writing is quick with movement and with sympathy; its people alive with death, if one can put it that way. It leaves one with aching heart and questing mind. "New York Herald Tribune" The translation of Gellhorn s] personal testimony into the form of a novel has . . . force and point. "Times Literary Supplement""

O autorze

Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, Human Cargo . Her biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Dancing to the Precipice , was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009. Caroline's most recent book was A Train in Winter. She lives in London.