A Stricken Field

Follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to obtain help for the refugees and to convey the shocking state of the country both frustrating and futile.

"A brave, final novel. Its writing is quick with movement and with sympathy; its people alive with death, if one can put it that way. It leaves one with aching heart and questing mind." (New York Herald Tribune) "The translation of [Gellhorn's] personal testimony into the form of a novel has... force and point." (Times Literary Supplement) "Miss Gellhorn... is an admirable reporter. She has intelligence, feeling, a seeing eye, and she writes a clean, contemporary prose.... [A Stricken Field] is a compelling book and a moving one." (New York Times)"

Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was one of the best-known war correspondents of the twentieth century, as well as a novelist and travel writer and, briefly, Ernest Hemingway's wife. Over the course of her career, she reported on the Depression, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Six-Day War in the Middle East, the civil wars in Central America, and other major events. She is the author of the novels The Wine of Astonishment and The Face of War, as well as the memoir Travels with Myself and Another, an account of her life with Hemingway.