TY - BOOK AU - Gellhorn, Martha AU - Gellhorn, Martha TI - A Stricken Field SN - 9780226286969 U1 - 813.52 GEL PY - 2011/// CY - Chicago PB - : The University of Chicago Press KW - Literature KW - American literature in English KW - American fiction in English KW - FICTION / Literary KW - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern KW - FICTION / War & Military N2 - 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 ER -