Going with the Boys
Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the bestselling author of The Unfinished Palazzo, the untold history of six groundbreaking women who fought to become front-line correspondents during World War II
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From the bestselling author of The Unfinished Palazzo, the untold history of six groundbreaking women who fought to become front-line correspondents during World War II
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'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.' -SpectatorGoing with the Boys follows six intrepid women as their lives and careers intertwined on the front lines of the Second World War.
Martha Gellhorn got the scoop on D-Day by traveling to Normandy as a stowaway on a Red Cross ship; Lee Miller went from being a Vogue cover model to the magazine's official war correspondent; Sigrid Schultz hid her Jewish identity and risked her life by reporting on the Nazi regime; Virginia Cowles, transformed herself from 'society girl columnist' to combat reporter; Clare Hollingworth was the first English journalist to break the news of the war, while Helen Kirkpatrick was the first woman to report from an Allied war zone to be granted equal privileges to her male colleagues.
Barred from official briefings and from combat zones, their lives made deliberately difficult by entrenched prejudice, all six set up their own informal contacts and found their own pockets of war action. In this gripping, intimate and nuanced account, Judith Mackrell celebrates these extraordinary women and reveals how they wrote history as it was being made, changing the face of war reporting forever.
'This is a book that manages to be thoughtful and edge-of-your-seat thrilling.' - Mail on Sunday
'Like the copy filed by her subjects, it is an essential read.' - BBC History Magazine
Autoren-Porträt von Judith Mackrell
Judith Mackrell is a celebrated dance critic, writing first for the Independent and now for the Guardian. Her biography of the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, Bloomsbury Ballerina, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. She has also appeared on television and radio, as well as writing on dance, co-authoring The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. She lives in London with her family.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Judith Mackrell
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2022, Main Market Ed., 448 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, mit Schwarz-Weiss-Abbildungen, Masse: 13 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1509882979
- ISBN-13: 9781509882977
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Women's ability to cope was apparently beyond military imagination, yet ironically, as Judith Mackrell's compelling book shows, navigating newspaper bias and military restrictions often gave women the professional edge . . . They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud. Clare Mulley Spectator
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