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The Extraordinary Life of Martha Gellhorn
- ghaff 8y agoThere's a biopic about Gellhorn's time with Hemingway (Hemingway & Gellhorn), which IMO is better than Rotten Tomatoes suggests. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hemingway_and_gellhorn_2012/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hemingway_and_gellhorn_2012...
- chewz 8y agoIf you are a traveller (or planing to become one) I highly recommend reading Travels with Myself and Others by Martha Gellhorn. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/925368.Travels_With_Myself_and_Another https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/925368.Travels_With_Myse...
- jshevek 8y agoMartha Gellhorn is an amazing person. Particular impressive is this portion of her life as summarized by wikipedia (also covered in the article at townandcountrymag) "Later, from Germany, she reported on the rise of Adolf Hitler. In the spring of 1938 (months before the Munich Agreement), she was in Czechoslovakia. After the outbreak of World War II, she described these events in the novel A Stricken Field (1940). She later reported the war from Finland, Hong Kong, Burma, Singapore, and England. Lacking official press credentials to witness the Normandy landings, she hid in a hospital ship bathroom, and upon landing impersonated a stretcher bearer; she later recalled, "I followed the war wherever I could reach it." She was the only woman to land at Normandy on D-Day on June 6, 1944. She was also among the first journalists to report from Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated by US troops on April 29, 1945."