Martha Gellhorn

"The View from the Ground" is Martha Gellhorn's second collection of journalism from her over six decades of career as a reporter and war correspondent.

Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was a war correspondent for nearly fifty years. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her candid reports reflected her feelings for people no matter what their political ideologies, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. …