The Fog of War

Martha Gellhorn at the D-Day Landings

Michelle Jabès Corpora

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English

Pushkin Children's Books
03 August 2021

Warfare, battles, armed forces (Children's&YA)

Series: True Adventures

Martha Gellhorn was one of the world's greatest war correspondents, travelling to hotspots to report on conflicts including the Spanish Civil War, World War Two, the Vietnam War and the Arab-Israeli wars.

She wrote for Collier's magazine, which could only send one journalist to cover the invasion of France in June 1944. When Ernest Hemingway - Gellhorn's estranged husband and the most famous writer in the world - offered his services, they took away Gellhorn's pass and gave it to him.

Undeterred, the night before the invasion she blagged her way on to a hospital ship and locked herself in the lavatory until it was too late to send her back. She worked as a nurse on board, treating both Allied and German casualties before going ashore with the soldiers, filing her brilliant reports from the scene of the battle.

(And Hemingway? His boat turned back because of bad weather.)

By: Michelle Jabès Corpora
Imprint: Pushkin Children's Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781782693130
ISBN 10: 1782693130
Series: True Adventures
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 03 August 2021
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michelle Jabes Corpora is American and based in the US. She has written five adventures for the world-famous, best-selling Nancy Drew Diaries and Hardy Boys series. She has a Masters of Arts in Children's Literature from Hollins University. As a book packager for Working Partners, she has conceived and created some thrilling book series, such as Robots Rule! for Houghton Mifflin and Bad Tide Rising for Fischer Verlag. She has always been excited by history, and her middle grade historical novel A Thimbleful of Hope is forthcoming from Penguin.

Reviews for The Fog of War: Martha Gellhorn at the D-Day Landings

'Cracking illustrations, true life stories in the vein of the ladybird books but more substantial ... brilliantly written by proper writers' - Frank Cottrell-Boyce