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The face of war / Martha Gellhorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military history, Modern--20th century.
- Military history, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 357 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was a war correspondent for nearly fifty years. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her candid reports reflected her feelings for people no matter what their political ideologies, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "I wrote very fast, as I had to," she says, "afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place." Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. Collected here together for the first time, The Face of War is what The New York Times called "a brilliant anti-war book."
- Contents:
- Introduction, 1959 1
- Introduction, 1986 7
- The War in Spain 13
- High Explosive for Everyone 19
- The Besieged City 27
- The Third Winter 37
- The War in Finland 51
- Bombs on Helsinki 53
- The Karelian Front 59
- The War in China 67
- The Canton Front 71
- The Second World War 85
- The Bomber Boys 89
- Three Poles 95
- Visit Italy 102
- The First Hospital Ship 109
- The Carpathian Lancers 121
- The Gothic Line 130
- A Little Dutch Town 138
- The Battle of the Bulge 145
- The Black Widow 153
- Das Deutsche Volk 162
- The Russians 171
- Dachau 179
- The War in Java 187
- Java Journey 191
- Interim 201
- The Paths of Glory 203
- They Talked of Peace 213
- The War in Vietnam 221
- A New Kind of War 225
- Orphans of All Ages 231
- Saigon Conversation Piece 236
- Open Arms for the Vietcong 242
- The Uprooted 246
- Real War and the War of Words 253
- "Suffer the Little Children ..." 264
- Last Words on Vietnam, 1987 274
- The Six Day War 283
- Casualties and Propaganda 291
- Why the Refugees Ran 296
- Thoughts on a Sacred Cow 299
- Wars in Central America 303
- Rule by Terror 313
- "We Are Not Little Mice" 322.
- ISBN:
- 0871132117
- OCLC:
- 16950974
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