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Martha Gellhorn

    8 novembre 1908 – 15 février 1998

    Cette auteure américaine est considérée comme l'une des plus grandes correspondantes de guerre du XXe siècle. Ses reportages se distinguent par un regard pénétrant sur les destins humains dans le contexte des conflits. Elle a transposé ses expériences et observations dans la fiction, explorant souvent des thèmes de justice et de courage humain. Son héritage perdure à travers le prestigieux prix de journalisme qui porte son nom.

    Martha Gellhorn
    The Trouble I've Seen
    The Weather in Africa
    The Illustrated West With the Night
    Love Goes to Press
    Face of War
    The Face of War
    • Find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, feel the frozen ground of the Finno Russian war, the continent-wide Japanese invasion of China, the massacres in Java, the murderously naive intervention in Vietnam and the USA's dirty little wars in Central America.

      The Face of War
    • Face of War

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture
      4,3(37)Évaluer

      Reports from one of the Worlds greatest war correspondents

      Face of War
    • Written in the aftermath of World War II, Love Goes to Press opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg and ration cards, today it is a devilishly entertaining portrayal of the Battle of the Sexes.

      Love Goes to Press
    • The Illustrated West With the Night

      • 294pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      4,3(531)Évaluer

      The dramatic true story of a remarkable woman growing up in Africa in the 1920s: the excitement of big game hunting and horse training, and the first solo flight across the Atlantic from east to west. It's named one of the ten greatest adventure books of all time, as selected by a panel assembled by National Geographic Adventure. The author describes growing up in an Africa that no longer exists, training and breeding race horses, flying mail to Sudan, and being the first woman to fly the Atlantic from east to west

      The Illustrated West With the Night
    • The Weather in Africa

      • 241pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      4,2(15)Évaluer

      Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. Meanwhile, a heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea.

      The Weather in Africa
    • The Trouble I've Seen

      • 266pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      4,2(29)Évaluer

      Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House.

      The Trouble I've Seen
    • Ervaringen van een Amerikaanse journaliste in het door de Duitsers bezette Praag in 1938.

      Stricken Field
    • The View from the Ground

      • 396pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      3,6(10)Évaluer

      If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night

      The View from the Ground
    • Travels with Myself and Another

      • 304pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      3,8(1682)Évaluer

      Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic. "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together. Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.

      Travels with Myself and Another
    • Martha Gellhorn, die berühmte Kriegsreporterin, schrieb in den sechziger Jahren über das "Palästina-Problem". Sie erkundete die Hintergründe des jüdischen Heimatsbedarfs und berichtete von ihrer Reise durch Deutschland sowie dem Eichmann-Prozess. Gellhorn stellte fest, dass Palästinenserführer Geld für die Ausbildung von Kämpfern verwendeten, anstatt Bildung zu fördern.

      Die Araber von Palästina. Reportagen über arabische Flüchtlinge, Eichmann und den Sechstagekrieg