US President Roosevelt's wife Eleanor, musical genius composer, conductor, pianist and music lecturer Leonard Bernstein and the English writer HG Wells, who known for his work in the science fiction genre, as well as her own marriage to Ernest Hemingway. They had a passionate and sometimes stormy love affair and marriage that lasted for a seven year period and she produced reports throughout five of the most terrible wars of their time. He dedicated his Spanish Civil War novel For Whom the Bell Tolls' published in 1940 to her in the year she became his third wife. Their relationship was tempestuous to say the very least, and seemingly based on the two opposite emotions love and hate becoming co-travelers. In reality it could not, and would not last. Gellhorn's working life spanned the Spanish Civil War, the Great Depression, World War I and II and the conflict in Vietnam. Following World War II she lived in permanent exile in Britain, because she was ashamed to be American. Somewhere along the way she had lost her belief that in the end 'truth, justice and kindness' would always prevail. "Let me tell you something about writers... the best ones are all liars"* Martha Gellhorn was 22 years of age when she first offered her services as a reporter to the bureau chief of The New York Times at Paris. She was full of fire, passion and vision. That made her want to speak on behalf of the victims of war, of those