The Women Who Wrote the War

An illustrated historical biography celebrates the accomplishments of World War II's female war correspondents--including Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, and Janet Flanner--who risked their lives in combat zones to provide firsthand reports on the events of the war. Reprint.

Biographies & Memoirs

SOREL, Nancy Caldwell

Arcade Publishing

Leaders & Notable People

Harper Paperbacks

This fascinating books is all about eponyms. These are people whose names became associated with famous objects or events. Quisling, bobby, crapper (yes, crapper!). These were first men or women, and what they did or made or discovered earned them a place in this absolutely fascinating book. Lavishly illustrated by the mad Edward Sorel; written by Nancy Caldwell Sorel his wife - it is an altogether riveting stroll through history and language.

Word people

American Heritage Press

Describes people's reaction to childbirth, pregnancy, parenthood, twins, and adoption in the past, present, and fiction

Ever Since Eve: Personal Reflections on Childbirth

Parenting & Relationships

Oxford University Press

From time immemorial, younger women have been asking older women, "What is it like to have a baby?" Here at last is a book that brings together the reactions of a wide array of women--some rich, some poor, some famous, some not-so-famous--to the experience of childbirth. Ranging from Sophia Loren to Queen Victoria, from Colette to Elzire Dionne, it explains in human terms as no clinical description can what the experience of having a baby is really like. A universal process that is unique in each instance, birth is inherently dramatic and changes even people who never expected to be deeply affected. Indeed, some of the most revealing pieces in Ever Since Eve are the testimony of men about fatherhood, men as diverse as Napoleon and W.C. Fields. A fascinating collection of vignettes, Ever Since Eve examines childbirth in different parts of the globe, offers some intriguing footnotes to history, and presents a view of public figures in their most private moments. Compelling reading for every pregnant woman, this book will be a treasured keepsake for anyone who has ever had--or would like to have--a baby.

Ever Since Eve: Personal Reflections of Childbirth

Fresh from a 12-year engagement in the pages of The Atlantic--65 wonderfully witty "first encounters" of the great and near great, the famous and infamous, throughout history. Brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed--with superb full-color drawings. A book to give as a gift and to enjoy and treasure as one's own.

First Encounters

Random House Value Publishing

Women Who Wrote the War

Demco Media

Shows and describes the first meetings of Lenin and Trotsky, Garbo and Barrymore, Mahler and Freud, Chaplin and Cocteau, Lang and Goebbels, Chekhov and Tolstoy, Wilde and Whitman, and De Gaulle and Roosevelt

First Encounters: A Book of Memorable Meetings

KNOPF

A clutch of sparkling, wonderful excerpts from essays, fiction, and life shows that the experience of launching a child into the world unites many women and certainly some men. Sharp-tongued Dorothy Parker rails against the slipshod biology that makes carrying and delivering a child so time-consuming. Kitty writhes in childbirth in a scene from Anna Karenina. Novelist Toni Cade Bambara lampoons a wanna-be revolutionary who "castigated the Sisters to throw away the pill and hop to the mattresses and breed revolutionaries." And let us not forget W.C. Fields celebrating fatherhood: "Have wired all my intimate friends but have recd. no congratulations … I suppose they will come to & send me some telegrams soon."

Ever since Eve: personal reflections on childbirth

Literature & Fiction

Michael Joseph, Ltd.

Henry Holt Co.

Here’s how a hundred brave American women left their families and entered the combat-zone to chronicle what they saw. Nancy Sorel’s portrait pays homage to these unsung heroes. They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa; from San Francisco and all points east. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought to the battlefields of World War II a fresh optic, and reported back home what they witnessed with a new sensibility. Their experience was at once wide-ranging and intimate, devastating at one moment, heartwarming the next. In their ranks we encounter world-famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only Western photographer to cover the Nazi invasion of the USSR; Martha Gellhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway, who presciently reported on the menace of fascism; The New Yorker’s Janet Flanner, recording the bleak realities of life in post-liberation France; and Marguerite Higgins, who dared enter the concentration camp at Dachau just ahead of the American army. In her graphic, seamless narrative, Nancy Sorel weaves together the lives and times of these gutsy, incomparable women, assuring them their rightful place in this century’s history.

The Women Who Wrote the War: The Compelling Story of the Path-breaking Women War Correspondents of World War II

Arcade

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The Women Who Wrote the War

Word people

Ever Since Eve: Personal Reflections on Childbirth

Ever Since Eve: Personal Reflections of Childbirth

First Encounters

Women Who Wrote the War

First Encounters: A Book of Memorable Meetings

Ever since Eve: personal reflections on childbirth

Women Who Wrote the War

The Women Who Wrote the War: The Compelling Story of the Path-breaking Women War Correspondents of World War II