Of fortunes and war : Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents / Patrick Garrett
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TextPublisher number: :Segment Book Distributors | :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi Publication details: London : Two Roads, 2017Description: xi, 482 pages , 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN: 9781473664814Subject(s): News media, journalism & publishing | Hollingworth, Clare | Women journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography | Women journalists | Great BritainDDC classification: 070.4333 GAR Summary: Clare Hollingworth was famous for getting "the scoop of the century": the outbreak of the Second World War. From witnessing the first aerial bombings against England in the First World War, through Hitler's Blitzkrieg, Clare's résumé included desert war in North Africa, civil war in Greece, terrorism in Jerusalem, naming Philby as the Third Man, and guerrilla warfare in Vietnam and Borneo. Through access to family papers and personal accounts, her great-nephew Patrick Garrett is able to show Clare in three dimensions, explain her life and loves, and show how she dealt with the pressures of life as a correspondent-- decades before women were routinely accepted in this role.
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Clare Hollingworth was famous for getting "the scoop of the century": the outbreak of the Second World War. From witnessing the first aerial bombings against England in the First World War, through Hitler's Blitzkrieg, Clare's résumé included desert war in North Africa, civil war in Greece, terrorism in Jerusalem, naming Philby as the Third Man, and guerrilla warfare in Vietnam and Borneo. Through access to family papers and personal accounts, her great-nephew Patrick Garrett is able to show Clare in three dimensions, explain her life and loves, and show how she dealt with the pressures of life as a correspondent-- decades before women were routinely accepted in this role.
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