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Martha Gellhorn: A Life (Hardcover)

by Caroline Moorehead (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 580 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus; illustrated edition edition (25 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701169516
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701169510
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 15.8 x 5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 287,785 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Martha Gellhorn's reporting tracks many of the flashpoints of the 20th century: witnessing the Depression in a state of righteous fury, risking her life in the Spanish Civil War, and in the Second World War covering the fall of Czechoslovakia and the Normandy Landings, the liberation of Dachau and the Nuremberg Trials. She reported from Vietnam and Israel; and at the age of 81, she was covering the US invasion of Panama. All her life, Martha fought against injustice. She was influenced by two older women: her mother, who was a social reformer, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Her books of reporting and travel reflected her personality and courage, her novels her shrewd and ironic eye; both were often very funny. Martha died in 1998; at last the true story can be told. This fascinating book reveals much about her life and loves, and is based on primary source material which no previous biographer has seen.


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Magnificent new biography of Martha Gellhorn, the war correspondent, whose fearless reporting from the front made her a legend, and whose private life was often messy and volcanic. Ernest Hemingway sent her a telegram: 'Are you a war correspondent or my w
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brutally Honest, 14 Jan 2004
By takingadayoff "takingadayoff" (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews
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I have been a Martha Gellhorn fan since I found a copy of Travels With Myself and Another on the shelf at Hatchard's in London in 1983. I had never heard of Gellhorn, but was immediately taken with her no-nonsense reporter's style of writing. I scooped up all her non-fiction and some of her fiction. After reading both of Carl Rollyson's bios of her (one written before she died, against her wishes, the other right after her death), I thought I knew a little about Gellhorn. After reading Moorehead's bio, I found out just how little.

This is likely to be the standard text on Gellhorn's life. It is complete, readable, and doesn't pull any punches. You get Gellhorn, warts and all, and there are plenty of warts. There was a lot of information here that I hadn't known, and wouldn't have guessed. It may even be too much information. I think I may know more about Gellhorn now than I really wanted to.

Martha Gellhorn was a terrific war reporter, a great non-fiction writer, a competent author of fiction, and a fascinating person. Moorehead's biography captures all that and is well worth your time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A stirring biography of a no-nonsense romantic heroine, warts and all, 11 Jan 2008
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Martha Gellhorn was a caricature of the spunky feminist war correspondent. A legendary adventuress who was a match for Hemingway, a seducer of generals, a confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt, her name evokes grit, glamour and style. She is one of those few who can claim to have had a ringside view of the 20th century, and she was deservedly a feminist icon and foreign correspondent's pin-up. But as this excellent biography shows, underneath it all, Gellhorn was all too human.

This close-up of her life shows her to have been by turns selfish, vulnerable, catty, naive, a poor mother and an unenthusiastic sexual partner. Easily bored, she was also fiercely competitive, witty, spirited and absolutely no-nonsense. She had enough gusto to turn a youthful wander overseas into a life of adventure, recorded in magazine articles which turned her into a household name. And when outraged, as she was by injustice in war and the horror she saw at Dachau, she was a whirlwind of determination and indignation.

Caroline Moorehead has succeeded in getting to know her subject thoroughly, turning the myths inside out and showing us the real Martha Gellhorn. The image that is left is of a rather complex and lonely figure, isolated by her own willfulness. Moorehead has done a fine job: I loved this biography, but I'm not sure I could have loved Martha Gellhorn.
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