Of fortunes and war : Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Garrett, Patrick2016
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A chance find in the family attic launches an author on a globetrotting odyssey to learn the truth about his great aunt, Clare Hollingworth, the legendary war correspondent. Clare was famous for getting the “scoop of the century” - the outbreak of the Second World War. But her old trunk revealed that there was a lot of her life story that had gone unreported… From witnessing the first aerial bombing against England in the First War, through Hitler's Blitzkrieg, Clare’s résumé includes desert war in North Africa, civil war in Greece, terrorism in Jerusalem, and guerrilla warfare in Vietnam and Borneo. But this book is about both love and war - a moving story of Clare's passion for life, but the tough compromises she had to make over personal relationships.
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Author:
Garrett, Patrick, author
Imprint:
London : Thistle Publishing, 2016
Collation:
510 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781910670842 (pbk.)
Language:
English
BRN:
1135699
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