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23%OFFMartha Gellhorn - The View from the Ground - 9781862071490 - V9781862071490
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The View from the Ground

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Description for The View from the Ground Paperback. A collection of the author's peacetime dispatches, bearing witness to six decades of change. They include coverage of America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann and Spain in the days after Franco. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131. Weight in Grams: 360.
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.

Product Details

Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862071490
SKU
V9781862071490
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About Martha Gellhorn
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 ... Read more

Reviews for The View from the Ground
Read and learn from her humanitariansim, be fired by the power of her writing and her haunting sense of place
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