{"product_id":"9780802191168","title":"The Face of War","description":"OpenRoad - \u003cb\u003eA collection of \"first-rate frontline journalism\" from the Spanish Civil War to US actions in Central America \"by a woman singularly unafraid of guns\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   For nearly sixty years, Martha Gellhorn's fearless war correspondence made her a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the Central American wars of the mid-eighties, Gellhorn's candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people regardless of their political ideology. Collecting the best of Gellhorn's writing on foreign conflicts, and now with a new introduction by Lauren Elkin, \u003ci\u003eThe Face of War\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of frontline journalism by \"the premier war correspondent of the twentieth century\" (Ward Just, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. \"I wrote very fast, as I had to,\" she says, \"afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place.\" As Merle Rubin noted in his review of this volume for \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonitor\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Martha Gellhorn's courageous, independent-minded reportage breaks through geopolitical abstractions and ideological propaganda to take the reader straight to the scene of the event.\"","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128053022960,"sku":"9780802191168","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802191168_p0.jpg?v=1763725309","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802191168","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}