The Women Who Wrote the War: World War II's Daredevil Women Correspondents

The compelling tale of a hundred brave American women who after leaving their families joined combat-zone fighting during World War II to chronicle and report faithfully back to the States. Nancy Sorel?s portrait pays homage to these unsung heroes. They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa; from San Francisco and all points east. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought to the battlefields of World War II a fresh optic, and reported back home what they witnessed with a new sensibility. Their experience was at once wide-ranging and intimate, devastating at one moment, heartwarming the next. In this important and timely book, Nancy Sorel eloquently demonstrates the role they played in bringing the war to the folks back home. In their ranks we encounter world-famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only western photographer to cover the Nazi invasion of the USSR and among the first to photograph Buchenwald; Martha Gellhhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway, who reported the menace of fascism from the beginning; Lee Miller, legendary photographer, famously snapped taking a bath in Hitler?s bathtub in 1945; the New Yorker?sJanet Flanner, recording in her Letter from Paris the bleak realities of life in post-liberation France; and Marguerite Higgins, who dared enter the concentration camp at Dachau just ahead of the American army. These brave reporters and dozens more formed the crucial link in the long chain of women?s struggle for full equality in a profession hitherto dominated by men. In her graphic, seamless narrative, Nancy Sorel weaves together the lives and times of these gutsy, incomparable women, assuring them their rightful place in this century?s history Here's how a hundred brave American women left their families and entered the combat-zone to chronicle what they saw. Nancy Sorel's portrait pays homage to these unsung heroes. They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa; from San Francisco and all points east. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought to the battlefields of World War II a fresh optic, and reported back home what they witnessed with a new sensibility. Their experience was at once wide-ranging and intimate, devastating at one moment, heartwarming the next. In their ranks we encounter world-famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only Western photographer to cover the Nazi invasion of the USSR; Martha Gellhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway, who presciently reported on the menace of fascism; The New Yorker's Janet Flanner, recording the bleak realities of life in post-liberation France; and Marguerite Higgins, who dared enter the concentration camp at Dachau just ahead of the American army. In her graphic, seamless narrative, Nancy Sorel weaves together the lives and times of these gutsy, incomparable women, assuring them their rightful place in this century's history. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought to the battlefields of World War II a fresh optic, and reported back home what they witnessed with a new sensibility. Their experience was at once wide-ranging and intimate, devastating at one moment, heartwarming the next. In this book, Nancy Sorel eloquently demonstrates the role they played in bringing the war to the folks back home.

In their ranks we encounter world-famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only western photographer to cover the Nazi invasion of the U.S.S.R. and among the first to photograph Buchenwald; Martha Gellhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway, who reported the menace of Fascism from the beginning; Lee Miller, legendary photographer, famously snapped taking a bath in Hitler's bathtub in 1945; the New Yorker's Janet Flanner, recording in her Letter from Paris the bleak realities of life in post-liberation France; and Marguerite Higgins, who dared enter the concentration camp at Dachau just ahead of the American army.

"They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought a fresh view to the battlefields of World War II. Their experience was at once wide-ranging and intimate, devastating at one moment, heartwarming the next. In their ranks we encounter world-famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only Western photographer to cover the Nazi invasion of the USSR; Martha Gellhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway, who presciently reported on the menace of fascism; the New Yorker's Janet Flanner, recording the bleak realities of life in post-liberation France; and Marguerite Higgins, who dared enter the concentration camp at Dachau just ahead of the American army. Nancy Sorel weaves together the lives and times of these fearless, dashing, and eccentric women, assuring them their rightful place in history."--Page 4 of cover "World War II produced a huge cast of characters. War correspondents were a small but essential part of the picture, and women correspondents but a fraction of the whole. Yet the heroic role played by the women who volunteeered for combat-zone duty has never been given its due. Their ranks included Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, Janet Flanner, and hundreds of others. The Women Who Wrote the War relates not only what they reported but also the sides of their lives they did not report. In a riveting and seamless narrative, Nancy Sorel weaves together the lives and times of these women and gives them not only the dignity they deserve but their rightful place in this century's history. Their stories form a crucial link in the long chain of women's struggle for equality." Under 2. Verdenskrig deltog en række kvindelige journalister og fotografer på de allieredes side som krigskorrespondenter og beskrev krigens episoder på lige fod med mandlige kollegaer. I denne bog gives en række eksempler på de kvindelige krigskorrespondenters indsats Chronicles the experiences of women reporters during World War II, discussing the discrimination they faced from the military and male colleagues, and looking at the adverse physical conditions they suffered in their efforts to bring the story of the war home to America. “these Women Must Not Be Forgotten; Their Stories Must Be Told Now. . . . Through Her Determined Inquiry And Elegant Writing, Nancy Caldwell Sorel Proves Herself A Reporter Worthy Of Their Legacy.”—dan Rather