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A Stricken Field / Martha Gellhorn

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: :Segment Book Distributors | :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi Publication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.Description: xi, 314 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780226286969
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.52 GEL
Summary: In 1938, before the Munich pact, Gellhorn visited Prague and witnessed its transformation from a proud democracy preparing to battle Hitler to a country occupied by the German army. Born out of this experience, her novel 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 convincing account of a people under the brutal oppression of the Gestapo, and Gellhorn's most powerful work of fiction
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In 1938, before the Munich pact, Gellhorn visited Prague and witnessed its transformation from a proud democracy preparing to battle Hitler to a country occupied by the German army. Born out of this experience, her novel 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 convincing account of a people under the brutal oppression of the Gestapo, and Gellhorn's most powerful work of fiction

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