The View from the Ground (Granta Paperbacks)

Biographies & Memoirs

Gellhorn, Martha

Professionals & Academics

Granta

Mary Douglas, an American journalist working in Prague during 1938, finds herself becoming involved in the predicament of the Nazis' victims

A Stricken Field (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Penguin??Books

When Marc Royer, a wealthy white on the French Caribbean island of Saint Boniface marries Liana, a young mulatto, she finds herself an outcast from both worlds

Liana

Sports & Outdoors

Martha Gellhorn was one of the first—and most widely read—female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she was also an acclaimed novelist. In 1938, before the Munich pact, Gellhorn visited Prague and witnessed its transformation from a proud democracy preparing to battle Hitler to a country occupied by the German army. Born out of this experience, A Stricken Field follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to obtain help for the refugees and to convey the shocking state of the country both frustrating and futile. A convincing account of a people under the brutal oppression of the Gestapo, A Stricken Field is Gellhorn’s most powerful work of fiction. “[A] brave, final novel. Its writing is quick with movement and with sympathy; its people alive with death, if one can put it that way. It leaves one with aching heart and questing mind.”—New York Herald Tribune “The translation of [Gellhorn’s] personal testimony into the form of a novel has . . . force and point.”—Times Literary Supplement

A Stricken Field: A Novel

Literary

University of Chicago Press

Travels With Myself and Another

"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. 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.

Travels with Myself and Another

Travel

Travel Writing

Dodd, Mead

Two sisters, a refugee from a German POW camp, and an American woman who attempts to lose her tragic memories are portrayed in three stories illuminating the complex relationships between Blacks and whites in Africa

The Weather in Africa

Originally published in 1948, this powerful novel follows a U.S. Army infantry battalion in Europe through the last months of the Second World Warâ€”through the Battle of the Bulge, the Allied sweep across Germany, and the discovery of the Nazi death camps. Jacob Levy, a young soldier from St. Louis, has never given much thought to politics, world affairs, or his own Jewish heritage, but after the liberation of Dachau, he confronts the horror of the Holocaust and takes his own violent revenge. Jolted into a new understanding of humanityâ€™s connectedness, he comes to terms with his own Jewish identity and grapples with questions of individual moral responsibility that are still contemporary fifty years later.Â In her afterword, Martha Gellhorn traces the roots of the novel in her own experience as a war correspondent who first heard of the Nazi concentration camps during the Spanish Civil War and herself got to Dachau a week after American soldiers discovered the camp at the end of a village street.

Point of No Return

Plume

Novellas/M Gellhorn

Random House Value Publishing

A collection of fiction by a popular war correspondent testifies to the scope of a talented writer, in stories that range in subject from poverty in the Depression-era South to genteel expatriate life in Africa.

The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn

Contemporary

KNOPF

“[Blending] cool lyricism and fiery emotion, alternately prickly and welcoming, funny and stern, Gellhorn is one of the most extraordinary women of our era.”—Chicago Sun-Times Spanning more than 40 years and settings that range from Depression-era America to the smartest London dinner parties to the highlands of East Africa, the novellas of Martha Gellhorn display the same qualities that have made her one of the most famous journalists of the twentieth century: an indelible sense of place, prose of breathtaking swiftness and precision, and an unerring fix on the hidden motives of her characters. Above all, Martha Gellhorn explores the ways men and women live privately—and often passionately—amid the rush of history. “Reading Martha Gellhorn for the first time is a staggering experience. She is not a travel writer or a journalist or a novelist: she is all of these, and one of the most eloquent witnesses of the twentieth century.”—Bill Buford, Granta “Martha Gellhorn is one of our very best writers. To the swift and vibrant medium of the [novella], she brings a richness of experience, a tenderness and depth of feeling.”—The Atlantic “Peerless and hilarious . . . Martha Gellhorn is a wittily astringent writer.”—Vogue

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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The View from the Ground (Granta Paperbacks)

A Stricken Field (Virago Modern Classics)

Liana

A Stricken Field: A Novel

Travels with Myself and Another

The Weather in Africa

Point of No Return

Novellas/M Gellhorn

The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn

The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn