The View from the Ground

If you want to know about writing, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night. Martha Gellhorn wrote it as a 28-year-old, in 1936, having just returned to the States after four years in Europe. What follows is a collection of fifty years of peacetime journalism, selected by Gellhorn herself - history caught at the moment of its unfolding, as it looked and felt to those who experienced it. It's about revolutions in the making, guilty acts of state terrorism, poverty, injustice and recovery. It vividly captures the range and intensity of Gellhorn's courageous work and is also a passionate call to arms, not only to remember the wronged and to bear witness to evil, but also to stand your ground in the face of it. With a biographical afterword by Caroline Moorehead