Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II
The only foreign photographer in the Soviet Union when Hitler's troops  invaded in 1941, "Adolf Hitler's greatest enemy," the first journalist to enter  the concentration camp at Dachau before American troops arrived to liberate  it--these are descriptions of some of the courageous World War II correspondents  who risked their lives to report on the outrage, devastation, and hope of war.  What makes them especially notable is that they are all women. Penny Colman's  remarkable book tells of some of the 127 women who defied the traditional gender  barrier to become accredited war correspondents. Reporting on Iwo Jima,  concentration camps, famous battles, and Nazi rallies, stellar writers and  photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White and Clare Boothe Luce scooped many  of their male colleagues, and gave the folks back home a real image of war.  Breathtaking photographs, actual newspaper dispatches, and edge-of-seat  descriptions of the near misses the correspondents experienced as they followed  the war make this book the ultimate for girls in search of girl power  inspiration. Penny Colman is the author of many award-winning titles, includingRosie the Riveter: Women Working  on the Home Front in World War IIandGirls: A History of Growing Up Female  in America. (Ages 11 and older)--Emilie Coulter