Letters of Martha Gellhorn

"Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all war correspondents, and her career tracked many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century: the Depression in the American south in the 1930s; the Spanish Civil War; the Second World War in Europe; the D-Day landings and the Vietnam War. She lived with Ernest Hemingway on and off for eight years, and was married to him for four; and she numbered among her close friends Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President of the United States; the writers H. G. Wells and Sybille Bedford; the photographer Robert Capa and the composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein." "Martha never kept a 'writer's compost heap' of diaries, but every day she wrote letters - to her mother, her sons, her lovers and friends - and these letters, read together, provide an immediate and intimate portrait of a remarkable life. Her letters have been selected and edited for publication by her biographer, Caroline Moorehead."--BOOK JACKET.