{"product_id":"a-stricken-field-paperback","title":"A Stricken Field - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha Gellhorn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCaroline Moorehead\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartha Gellhorn was one of the first--and most widely read--female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she was also an acclaimed novelist.\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1938, before the Munich pact, Gellhorn visited Prague and witnessed its transformation from a proud democracy preparing to battle Hitler to a country occupied by the German army. Born out of this experience, \u003ci\u003e A Stricken Field\u003c\/i\u003e follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to obtain help for the refugees and to convey the shocking state of the country both frustrating and futile. A convincing account of a people under the brutal oppression of the Gestapo, \u003ci\u003eA Stricken Field\u003c\/i\u003e is Gellhorn's most powerful work of fiction. \" A] brave, final novel. Its writing is quick with movement and with sympathy; its people alive with death, if one can put it that way. It leaves one with aching heart and questing mind.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \"The translation of  Gellhorn's] personal testimony into the form of a novel has . . . force and point.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Gellhorn\u003c\/b\u003e (1908-1998) was one of the best-known war correspondents of the twentieth century, as well as a novelist and travel writer and, briefly, Hemingway's third wife. Over the course of her career, she reported on the Depression, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Six-Day War in the Middle East, the civil wars in Central America, and other major events. She is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Wine of Astonishment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Face of War\u003c\/i\u003e and of the memoir \u003ci\u003eTravels with Myself and Another\u003c\/i\u003e, an account of her life with Hemingway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227217740025,"sku":"9780226286969","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MFFyVTdabUhVSUxvS1hkeUhGRzFLZz09.webp?v=1768279036","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-stricken-field-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}