The riveting\, untold history of a group o f heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II& mdash\;from Martha Gellhorn\, who out-scooped her husband\, Ernest Hemingw ay\, to Lee Miller\, a \;Vogue \;cover model turned war correspond ent.
\n"Thrilling from the first page to the last." &mdash\;Mary Gab riel\, author of \;Ninth Street Women
\n"Just as women are so of ten written out of war\, so it seems are the female correspondents. Mackre ll corrects this omission admirably with stories of six of the best&hellip \;Mackrell has done us all a great service by assembling their own fascina ting stories." &mdash\;New York Times Book Review
\nOn the front lin es of the Second World War\, a contingent of female journalists were brave ly waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entren ched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions\, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men.
\nThe Corre spondents \;follows six remarkable women as their lives and caree rs intertwined: Martha Gellhorn\, who got the scoop on Ernest Hemingway on D-Day by traveling to Normandy as a stowaway on a Red Cross ship\; Lee Mi ller\, who went from being a \;Vogue \;cover model to the magazine &rsquo\;s official war correspondent\; Sigrid Schultz\, who hid her Jewish identity and risked her life by reporting on the Nazi regime\; Virginia C owles\, a &ldquo\;society girl columnist&rdquo\; turned combat reporter\; Clare Hollingworth\, the first English journalist to break the news of Wor ld War II\; and Helen Kirkpatrick\, the first woman to report from an Alli ed war zone with equal privileges to men.
\nFrom chasing down source s and narrowly dodging gunfire to conducting tumultuous love affairs and s ocializing with luminaries like Eleanor Roosevelt\, Picasso\, and Man Ray\ , \;these six women are captured in all their complexity. \;With h er gripping\, intimate\, and nuanced portrait\, Judith Mackrell celebrates these courageous reporters who risked their lives for the scoop.
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