Martha Gellhorn was a fearless reporter & her despatches from the front made her a legend, yet her private life was often messy & volcanic. Her determination to be a war correspondent
- & her conspicuous success
- contributed to the breakdown of her already stormy marriage to Ernest Hemingway. Gellhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century; as a young woman she witnessed the suffering of the American Depression & risked her life in the Spanish Civil War, whilst producing some of her finest writing. All her life, Martha's battles were fought against injustice, & she always captured the human story.