The View From the Ground by Martha Gellhorn

The View From the Ground by Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn's peacetime dispatches bear witness to six decades of change: America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Spain in the days after Franco's death, Cuba revisited after forty-one years. Here is history as it looked and felt to the people who lived through it. Intense, courageous and vividly readable, The View from the Ground is a remarkable act of testimony. With a new introduction by Sam Knight, author of The Premonitions Bureau.

Read and learn from her humanitarianism, be fired by the power of her writing and her haunting sense of place * Independent *

Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was born in St Louis, Missouri. In 1930, she talked her way into a free passage to Europe and arrived in Paris with seventy-five dollars in her pocket and the conviction that she could earn a living as a foreign correspondent. She returned to the United States in 1934 and two years later published her acclaimed The Trouble I've Seen. It was at this time that she met Ernest Hemingway, whom she married. In 1937 she returned to Europe as a war correspondent, and for the first nine years she reported on the wars in Spain, Finland, China and Java and finally from Europe during the Second World War. After 1946 she continued to report on whatever engaged her interest and concern, from Vietnam to the Middle East and the wars in Central America. As well as her journalism, Martha Gellhorn was the author of novels, collections of stories, novellas, works of non-fiction and a play.

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ISBN 13	9781803513058
ISBN 10	1803513055
Title	The View From the Ground
Author	Martha Gellhorn
Series	Best Of Granta
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Granta Books
Year published	2026-08-13
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