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amelyy's review
challenging
emotional
informative
5.0
engrave her words into my mind. one of the most essential books i'll ever read, i think.
hvogado's review against another edition
5.0
The best book i've seen about the war. The sensibility, the cruel sceneries.
nostalgicspaceling's review
4.0
This was a hard read but I've very glad I read it. It's a collection of Gellhorn's articles as a war correspondent throughout her long career. It was very illuminating to read about these wars without the historical contextualization of everything that happened afterward.
readingonfogo's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and War
artinyourworld's review
5.0
To read my full review, click the following link: https://artinyourworld.com/2019/01/05/the-face-of-war-by-martha-gellhorn/
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History has gotten a bad rep. Mostly due to the education system at large, but a bad rep none the less. People don’t want to hear about the world that once was, the horrors people once did, the impacts that were left behind, the glory and lessons, people don’t want to hear about the past. It is the now that has taken over people’s obsessions and minds. Not to say there isn’t a lot going on that needs attention, but to say that history doesn’t matter is equally as false.
History is the now. We are living history. Not just for future generations, we are the example of history, of war. We are the faces of war, bringing me to my segue into the book by Martha Gellhorn. Published in 1959, The Face of War is a compilation of articles Gellhorn wrote as a war correspondent for various periodicals. From the Spanish Civil War, unrest in South America, political uprisings throughout the Caribbean, soldiers on beaches and in the sky, Gellhorn captures the ugly truth we don’t want to think about.
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History has gotten a bad rep. Mostly due to the education system at large, but a bad rep none the less. People don’t want to hear about the world that once was, the horrors people once did, the impacts that were left behind, the glory and lessons, people don’t want to hear about the past. It is the now that has taken over people’s obsessions and minds. Not to say there isn’t a lot going on that needs attention, but to say that history doesn’t matter is equally as false.
History is the now. We are living history. Not just for future generations, we are the example of history, of war. We are the faces of war, bringing me to my segue into the book by Martha Gellhorn. Published in 1959, The Face of War is a compilation of articles Gellhorn wrote as a war correspondent for various periodicals. From the Spanish Civil War, unrest in South America, political uprisings throughout the Caribbean, soldiers on beaches and in the sky, Gellhorn captures the ugly truth we don’t want to think about.
whats_margaret_reading's review
4.0
Martha Gellhorn's collection of war reportage is expanded in this edition to include the Six Day War and the US involvement in Central America. Gellhorn's strong narrative style provides a framework for her stories of war, from the Spanish Civil War to what was then present (1987). Her pieces focus on people are affected by war, usually through the individuals she meets as well as her own experiences in war zones. However, her earlier work is her strongest, and by the time she reports on the last two wars discussed she is more grumpy than telling the story of what she witnessed. The work included here represents the major wars of the 20th century, and provides a unique eyewitness account of journalism in war zones.
sarahscire's review
3.0
Brilliant anti-war collection! Gellhorn has a distinctive and enjoyable journalistic style without taking attention away from the atrocities she was covering.