The Vogue cover girl who turned war correspondent
They were all of them quite special. Six women war correspondents writing about World War II and pushing borders for what women journalists were supposed to cover.
One of them was Martha Gellhorn, married to another war correspondent, Ernest Hemingway, and another was Lee Miller, a model who started as a cover girl on Vogue and continued to be the magazine’s war correspondents.
Judith Mackrell’s book “The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II”, tells the story about women chasing the scoop and describing the horrors of the war. But it is also stories about love affairs and having cocktails with celebrities like Eleanor Roosevelt, Picasso, and Man Ray.
The book follows six remarkable women as their lives and careers intertwined:
Martha Gellhorn, reporting from the D-Day by traveling to Normandy as a stowaway on a Red Cross ship;
Lee Miller, who went from being a Vogue cover model to the magazine’s official war correspondent;
Sigrid Schultz, who hid her Jewish identity and risked her life by reporting on the Nazi regime;
Virginia Cowles, a “society girl columnist” turned combat reporter;
Clare Hollingworth, the first English journalist to break the news of World War II;
Helen Kirkpatrick, the first woman to report from an Allied war zone with equal privileges to men.
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