The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II

Today's nonfiction The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II by Judith Mackrell. It is 464 pages long and is published by Doubleday Books. The cover is a picture of a woman with a camera standing on car in uniform with a press armband. The intended reader is someone who is interested World War II history and women's history. There is some mild foul language, discussion of sex and sexuality, and discussion of war and violence. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book-  On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men. The Correspondents follows six women: Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, Sigrid Schultz, Virginia Cowles, Clare Hollingworth, and Helen Kirkpatrick. From chasing down sources and dodging gunfire to conducting love affairs, and socializing with luminaries like Eleanor Roosevelt, Picasso, and Man Ray, these six women are captured in all their complexity. 

Review- This is a very thick and comprehensive book following these six women over the course of WW2. Mackrell does give background information on the women and what they were looking for, to make them go into journalism but the main focus of the book is the war and their lives during it. Mackrell's notes are very useful for future reading about these women and the people in their lives. The writing is good, detailed but not overwhelming. At start of the book, Mackrell gives each women a chapter to herself to give the reader a good understanding of them. Then she dives right into the war itself and everything they went through. I would recommend this book on forgotten WW2 and women's history. 

I give this book a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.