{"product_id":"looking-for-trouble-book-virginia-cowles-9780593447604","title":"Looking for Trouble","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe rediscovered memoir of an American gossip columnist turned amazingly brilliant reporter (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) as she reports from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War and World War II \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA long-overlooked classic that could not be timelier or more engrossing.--Paula McLain, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Wife\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForeword by Christina Lamb, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e chief foreign correspondent and co-author of \u003ci\u003eI Am Malala\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVirginia Cowles was just twenty-seven years old when she decided to transform herself from a society columnist into a foreign press correspondent. \u003ci\u003eLooking for Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of this evolution, as Cowles reports from both sides of the Spanish Civil War, London on the first day of the Blitz, Nazi-run Munich, and Finland's bitter, bloody resistance to the Russian invasion. Along the way, Cowles also meets Adolf Hitler (an inconspicuous little man), Benito Mussolini, Winston Churchill, Martha Gellhorn, and Ernest Hemingway. Her reportage blends sharp political analysis with a gossip columnist's chatty approachability and a novelist's empathy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCowles understood in 1937--long before even the average politician--that Fascism in Europe was a threat to democracy everywhere. Her insights on extremism are as piercing and relevant today as they were eighty years ago.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49968789455121,"sku":"CIN0593447603G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50406038503697,"sku":"CIN0593447603VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0593447603.jpg?v=1750943617","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/looking-for-trouble-book-virginia-cowles-9780593447604","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}