With her gripping, intimate, and nuanced portrait, Judith Mackrell celebrates these courageous reporters who risked their lives for the scoop.

The Correspondents follows six remarkable women as their lives and careers intertwined: Martha Gellhorn, who got the scoop on Ernest Hemingway on 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 and Helen Kirkpatrick, the first woman to report from an Allied war zone with equal privileges to men.įrom chasing down sources and narrowly dodging gunfire to conducting tumultuous love affairs and socializing with luminaries like Eleanor Roosevelt, Picasso, and Man Ray, these six women are captured in all their complexity. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men. On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Mackrell’s chosen six came from different backgrounds though they all ended up writing for British or American news outlets. Mackrell corrects this omission admirably with stories of six of the best…Mackrell has done us all a great service by assembling their own fascinating stories.' - New York Times Book Review An account of six pioneering women who worked as war journalists in World War II. 'Just as women are so often written out of war, so it seems are the female correspondents. 'Thrilling from the first page to the last.' -Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II-from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent.

The Correspondents by Judith Mackrell