{"id":417,"date":"2003-12-13T09:38:47","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T09:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=417"},"modified":"2003-12-13T09:38:47","modified_gmt":"2003-12-13T09:38:47","slug":"weekend-reading-women-covering-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/weekend-reading-women-covering-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend reading: women covering war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic Online <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2003\/12\/1210_031210_warwomen.html\">profiles women who covered World War II. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tall, strikingly beautiful Martha Gellhorn was a talented writer whose philandering husband, Ernest Hemingway, claimed she secretly loved war and was happiest there. She vehemently disagreed, writing powerful anti-war pieces for Collier&#8217;s magazine. Always chafing at U.S. Army restrictions, Gellhorn traveled in Italy with Free French troops?more accommodating, unsurprisingly, to women reporters?then bucked the system by arriving on the D-Day invasion beaches as a stowaway. Stripped of her accreditation, she nevertheless used charm and wit, courage and quick feet to keep up with the armies. She accompanied a night combat mission in the skies over Germany, flak bursting around the airplane, and as her marriage dissolved, had a torrid affair with General James Gavin of 82nd Airborne. Her work was fiercely uncompromising. For many, Gellhorn&#8217;s dispatches set new standards for narrative frontline journalism. Her volume The Face of War remains as strong an indictment as any penned by the Hemingways of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of Gellhorn I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.si.edu\/exh\/hemingway\/gelhorn-essay.htm\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npg.si.edu\/img2\/hemingway\/gelhorn.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"279\" border=\"1\" align=\"top\"><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic Online profiles women who covered World War II. The tall, strikingly beautiful Martha Gellhorn was a talented writer whose philandering husband, Ernest Hemingway, claimed she secretly loved war and was happiest there. She vehemently disagreed, writing powerful anti-war&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/weekend-reading-women-covering-war\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}