The Face of War

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0871132117 ISBN13: 9780871132116 Release Date: January 1994 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Length: 337 Pages Weight: 0.85 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3" 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."