Going with the boys : six extraordinary women writing from the front line
Mackrell, Judith2021
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Total copies: 1
In 'Going with the Boys', Judith Mackrell tells the story of how six bold and resolute women became front-line war correspondents during the Second World War. Each of them had different motives for choosing so dangerous a career: Martha Gellhorn came to war journalism to save the world; Virginia Cowles wanted to see the world; Lee Miller wanted, arguably, to save herself. Sigrid Schulz, Clare Hollingworth and Helen Kirkpatrick, reporting for daily newspapers, were required to write about the war in a more briskly factual style. But they were no less determined to uncover the truth. Barred from official briefings, forced to dodge around the Public Relations Officers who controlled the media's movements, all six set up their own informal contacts with soldiers, found pockets of war action and snapshots of human interest which gave a different colour and often a different heartbeat to their stories.
Main title:
Going with the boys : six extraordinary women writing from the front line / Judith Mackrell.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 2021.
Collation:
456 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781509882939 (hbk)1509882936 (hbk)
Dewey class:
070.4333 MAC070.4333
LC class:
PN4823
Language:
English
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BRN:
374319