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An ardent anti-fascist, she abhorred “objectivity shit” and wrote about real people doing real things with intelligence and passion. She is most famous, to her enduring exasperation, as Ernest Hemingway’s third wife. Long after their divorce, her short tenure as “Mrs. Hemingway” from 1940 to 1945 invariably eclipsed her writing and, consequently, she never received her full due.   Gellhorn’s work and personal life attracted a disparate cadre of political and celebrity friends, among them, Sylvia Beach, Ingrid Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, Norman Bethune, Robert Capa, Charlie Chaplin, Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang, Colette, Gary Cooper, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Maxwell Perkins, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Orson Welles, H.G. Wells: the people who made history in her time and beyond.   Yours, for Probably Always is a curated collection of letters between Gellhorn and the extraordinary personalities that were her correspondents in the most interesting time of her life. Through these letters and the author’s contextual narrative, the book covers Gellhorn’s life and work, including reporting for Harry Hopkins and America’s Federal Emergency Relief Administration in the 1930s, newspaper and magazine reportage during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War, and her time with Hemingway and General Gavin late in the war, and her many loves and affairs.   Gellhorn’s fiction of the time sold well: The Trouble I’ve Seen (1936)—her Depression-Era stories based on the FERA activities, with an introduction by H.G. 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Gellhorn’s life, reportage, fiction and correspondence reveal her passionate advocacy of social justice and her need to tell the stories of “the people who were the sufferers of history.” Renewed interest in her life makes this new collection, packed with newly discovered letters and pictures, fascinating reading.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731259466001,"sku":"NGR9780228101864","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50157578420497,"sku":"GOR011369564","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50187042455825,"sku":"CIN0228101867VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346949411089,"sku":"CIN0228101867G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0228101867.jpg?v=1750843795"},{"product_id":"yours-for-probably-always-book-janet-somerville-9780228103950","title":"Yours, For Probably Always","description":"First paperback edition of the curated collection of letters of love and war between journalist Martha Gellhorn and other extraordinary personalities of the period from 1930 to 1949.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742113964305,"sku":"NGR9780228103950","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346943611153,"sku":"CIN0228103959G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0228103959.jpg?v=1750843804"},{"product_id":"how-midsummer-night-book-janet-somerville-9781504089357","title":"How Midsummer Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe author chronicles the final months of the life of her close friend and fellow teacher, in this unique and unforgettable memoir.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A wonderful memoir.\" --Stephen King\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When fifty-six-year-old Richard is diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare and inoperable brain cancer, his colleague and friend Janet Somerville begins to document his life in a personal, months-long letter to him, to one day share with his wife and daughters. 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