The Face of War

Martha Gellhorn covered the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, Vietnam, the Six-Day War and the American invasion of Panama, and this collection gathers the reporting with connective essays written decades later. Refused accreditation for D-Day, she locked herself in a hospital ship’s lavatory and went ashore as a stretcher-bearer. The essays are angrier than the dispatches, largely because she lived long enough to watch the same arguments recur.