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A Stricken Field (Virago Modern Classics)

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While this is fiction, it is based on Gellhorn's personal experience in 1938, when she was a young reporter in Prague trying to help those fleeing the Nazis. Her Afterword to the book explains how desperate she was, after witnessing (with Hemingway) so much killing in the Spanish Civil War, to try to do something--to persuade England or the U.S. to intervene. She hoped this novel, which describes the world of foreign reports in Prague as well as the plight of the refugees, would spur someone to take action to help Czechoslovakia. It is a moving, heartfelt call to action; sadly, it was not heard in its time.