Looking for Trouble

About the author

Virginia Cowles OBE was born in Vermont in 1910. She gravitated to journalism in her youth to earn her living after the death of her mother, writing features for Hearst Newspapers. She became a trailblazing war correspondent for the Sunday Times, reporting from Civil War Spain in 1937 before covering wartime Europe for the BBC and NBC. Cowles wrote up her testimony in Looking for Trouble, a bestseller on publication in 1941, and later reported from North Africa as special assistant to the American Ambassador in London. In 1945, Cowles married Aidan Crawley, a British journalist who had been a fighter pilot and spent years in a German POW camp, later becoming a politician and filmmaker; they had three children. As well as writing a play with Martha Gellhorn, Cowles was also a historian and biographer, whose subjects included Winston Churchill and the Romanov, Rothschild, and Astor families. She was killed in an automobile accident in France in 1983.

Summary

This sensational 1941 memoir of life on the frontline of wartime Europe by a trailblazing female war reporter is a dazzling rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb.

Foreword

This sensational 1941 memoir of life on the frontline of wartime Europe by a 'magnificent' (Antony Beevor) trailblazing female reporter is a rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Cowles
• Assisted by: Christina Lamb (Introduction), Lamb Christina (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780571367542
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36754-2
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Second World War, Inter-war period, 1918-1939, Gender studies: women and girls, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Second World War, 1939-1945