Spain had been in political turmoil for many years before the war while the country was still officially a monarchy, a 1923 coup had placed Miguel Primo de Rivera in charge of the nation. The Correspondents paints a vivid, intimate, and nuanced portrait of these pioneering women, from chasing down sources to conducting clandestine love affairs. Several of the women highlighted in Judith Mackrell's The Correspondents started their journalistic careers covering the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). 'I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them.' On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a war correspondent for the magazine Martha Gellhorn, the third wife of Ernest Hemingway and a novelist in her own right Sigrid Schultz, an indisputably brave journalist who withstood surveillance, interrogation, and death threats in order to publish the truth from Berlin Virginia Cowles, whose career as a 'society girl columnist' turned combat reporter began with an exclusive interview with Mussolini Clare Hollingworth, who had almost no professional experience when she became the first correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II and Helen Kirkpatrick, a reporter so admired by the military that at the order of General Eisenhower she was the first woman to report from an Allied war zone with equal privileges to men. The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II. Spain with the boys,' Martha Gellhorn wrote. The Los Angeles Review of Books 'Judith Mackrell’s The Correspondents is a brilliant, gripping account of six journalists covering World War Two from deep inside the danger zone. Mackrell’s writing so captures the drama of the period that you can almost hear her characters’ typewriter keys tapping out their reports amid the rumble of tanks.

'A gripping group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II 'I am going to. Judith Mackrell’s The Correspondents is a brilliant, gripping account of six journalists covering World War Two from deep inside the danger zone.

The Correspondents by Judith Mackrell