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Indignant, but never righteous and not always right, through the crucible of hell on earth emerges a woman who makes you laugh with her at life, while thanking God that you are not with her.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399330627762,"sku":"9780907871774","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780907871774_75f3476d-1d32-4e1f-a6b8-fc0d73cd3169.jpg?v=1786016190"},{"product_id":"9780907871781","title":"The Weather in Africa","description":"Martha Gellhorn's three intertwined novellas are concerned with the integration of European outsider into the dramatic landscape of East Africa. It is a story of rejection and enchantment. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures in the great to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. A heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea. A lonely, awkward young Englishman, disorientated by years as a prisoner-of-war, orphaned by bombs in London, seeks a new life in the highlands.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295130661237,"sku":"9780907871781","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780907871781_e46a17e1-1dfc-44e2-8b41-d9ae336d18e6.jpg?v=1786016190"},{"product_id":"9781780601045","title":"The View from the Ground","description":"If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night. Martha Gellhorn wrote it as a 28-year-old, having just returned home to the States after four years in Europe, in 1936. What follows is a selection of fifty years of peacetime journalism, history caught at the moment of its unfolding, as it looked and felt to those who experienced it. It's about revolutions in the making, guilty acts of state terrorism, poverty, injustice and recovery.  It vividly captures the range and intensity of Gellhorn's courageous work and is also a passionate call to arms, not only to remember the wronged and to bear witness to evil, but to stand your ground in the face of it.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303886106997,"sku":"9781780601045","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780601045_b0a72ad3-8ef2-41a3-a0f4-e4fd7e2e018b.jpg?v=1786025683"},{"product_id":"9781780601052","title":"The Face of War","description":"James Cameron admired Martha Gellhorn above all other war-reporters 'because she combined a cold eye with a warm heart'.  The Chicago Times described her writing as 'wide ranging and provocative, a blend of cool lyricism and fiery emotion, alternately prickly and welcoming, funny and stern'.  But make your own judgements, and in the process find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, feel the frozen ground of the Finno Russian war, the continent-wide Japanese invasion of China, the massacres in Java, the murderously naive intervention in Vietnam and the USA's dirty little wars in Central America.  You will also experience the process of the Second World War by the seat of your pants.  It is a tough way to learn history, but also one created in bite-sized chunks, that inspire just as often as they shock.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304466362741,"sku":"9781780601052","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780601052_20ab9d52-985e-4b0e-ba0c-57bd97c8f567.jpg?v=1786025684"},{"product_id":"9781862071490","title":"The View From the Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartha Gellhorn's peacetime dispatches bear witness to six decades of change: America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Spain in the days after Franco's death, Cuba revisited after forty-one years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is history as it looked and felt to the people who lived through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntense, courageous and vividly readable, \u003ci\u003eThe View from the Ground \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkable act of testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308274954613,"sku":"9781862071490","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781862071490_b2609c68-cd55-4858-8b9b-c08d7b2bd079.jpg?v=1786029168"},{"product_id":"9781906011628","title":"The Trouble I've Seen","description":"Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House. From these pages, we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in the mouth, smell the disease and feel the hopelessness and the despair. And here, too, we can hear the earliest cadences of a writer who went on to become, arguably, the greatest female war reporter of the 20th century.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308702347637,"sku":"9781906011628","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781906011628_b4668917-7c24-4159-9039-412ce58a5475.jpg?v=1786029368"},{"product_id":"9781862071506","title":"The Face Of War","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartha Gellhorn was one of the twentieth century's greatest war correspondents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Face of War \u003c\/i\u003eis a selection of her reports, on the conflicts in Spain, Finland, China and World War II, with later reports on Vietnam, Israel and Central America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308906328437,"sku":"9781862071506","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781862071506_98ffb0d8-799c-4086-8018-a77272eae927.jpg?v=1786029168"},{"product_id":"view-from-the-ground","title":"The View From the Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartha Gellhorn's peacetime dispatches bear witness to six decades of change: America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Spain in the days after Franco's death, Cuba revisited after forty-one years. 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