num_pages: 337
description: Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was a war correspondent for nearly fifty years. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her candid reports reflected her feelings for people no matter what their political ideologies, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "I wrote very fast, as I had to," she says, "afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place." Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. Collected here together for the first time, The Face of War is what The New York Times called "a brilliant anti-war book."
language: English
title: The Face of War
titlecomplete: The Face of War
genres: History, Womens, Biography, Memoir, World War II, Essays, War, Politics, Journalism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 999
places: Normandy, Nuremberg, Spain
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press