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View from the Ground Paperback – 1 April 1998

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Martha Gellhorn's peacetime dispatches bear witness to six decades of change: America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Spain in the days after Franco's death, Cuba revisited after forty-one years. Here is history as it looked and felt to the people who lived through it. Intense, courageous and vividly readable, The View from the Ground is a remarkable act of testimony.

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1 April 1998
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12.5 x 3 x 20 cm
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1862071497
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978-1862071490
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MARTHA GELLHORN (1908-98) was born in St Louis, Missouri. In 1930, she talked her way into a free passage to Europe and arrived in Paris with seventy-five dollars in her pocket and the conviction that she could earn a living as a foreign correspondent. She returned to the United States in 1934 and two years later published her acclaimed The Trouble I've Seen. It was at this time that she met Ernest Hemingway, whom she married.
In 1937 she returned to Europe as a war correspondent, and for the first nine years she reported on the wars in Spain, Finland, China and Java and finally from Europe during the Second World War. After 1946 she continued to report on whatever engaged her interest and concern, from Vietnam to the Middle East and the wars in Central America.
As well as her journalism, Martha Gellhorn was the author of novels, collections of stories, novellas, works of non-fiction and a play.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Granta Books; New 2016 edition (1 April 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1862071497
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1862071490
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.5 x 3 x 20 cm

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The Best in 85 years.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2017

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If it was possible it would have to be at least a 6 Star rating. The most thought provoking work I have read. I've been totally immersed, even when not altogether in step with the Author's views. It has filled in many a gap in my understanding of political skulduggery.

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El Tophero

Passionate, Scathing and Moving.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2023

Gellhorn is simply one of the best American journalists of her time. The vivid and searing pieces about our world in times of piece, taken with her wartime reportage in ‘The Face of War’, should now be considered classics. If you want to know what great journalism is then read these two stunning books.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 April 2017

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A brilliant reporter - very inciseful and clear.

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Mr R Sellwood

An excellent read spoilt by technical issues on the Kindle version I bought.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2022

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The travels of the author are extraordinary and the places she visits and the issues she comments on are based on acute observation with intelligence and lack of hearsay.
However, my experience of this Kindle version was spoilt by the loss of sentences when flipping to a following page.
I shall claim a refund when I have finished the book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2015

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2015

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2014

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Tremendous book

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Thomas Lenihan

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2014

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Charles Vincent Smith

Gellhorn went, saw, and understood.

Reviewed in the United States on 16 May 2021

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Gellhorn reports on what the effects of war were on people who were caught in the middle, not the heroic war stories traded in the officers' clubs of the world. She was not a perfect person, but she went to see for herself and reported, at times using story-telling, rather than death by power point approaches (dry data presentations).

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Francesca Gattullo

A must of peace time narrative reportage

Reviewed in Italy on 12 October 2014

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I had read the book a number of years ago and wished to have it on my shelves. I have been reading it since I received it and strongly recommend it for its smoothless prose, critical perspective and originality. A never aging classic of reportage.

Rowena Williamson

Martha Gellhorn' s Record of the 20th Century History

Reviewed in the United States on 9 September 2013

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I became interested in her when I saw Hemingway and Gellhorn. The movie led me to read Travels With Myself and Another. From then on I have read both her fiction and non fiction. This book covers from the 1930s to the 80s: what this amazing woman did and saw and reported covering everything from the depression to the Army MacCarthy Hearings. It's America's story told by an amazing reporter.

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Kay Butler

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States on 12 June 2018

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Actually very boring...

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H Lambert

Entrancing

Reviewed in the United States on 3 April 2007

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Well worth the purchase price. This is the third Gellhorn book I've read as well as her biography and now that I'm finished I find I miss her as though she were actually someone I know. Very sharp descriptions of war following troop movements if not directly on the front lines. Her articles are full of Martha and her opinions. Good stuff. Also check out Gellhorn, The Face of War and Travels with Myself and Another.

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