A Stricken Field

“Powerfully illustrates how Western societies fail in their duty to protect the most vulnerable among us: stateless and homeless refugees.” —Anne Boyd Rioux, LitHub Martha Gellhorn was one of the first—and most widely read—female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she was also an acclaimed novelist. In 1938, before the Munich pact, Gellhorn visited Prague an