Looking for Trouble

Informationen zum Autor 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. Vorwort This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' ( The Times ) rediscovered classic. Zusammenfassung This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb (who calls her 'the Forrest Gump of journalism').

Report

Cowles was brave, brilliant, and everywhere it mattered ... One of the most exciting journalists of the 20th century. Anna Funder

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Cowles
• Assisted by: Christina Lamb (Introduction), Lamb Christina (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.10.2022
• EAN: 9780571367559
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36755-9
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Non-fiction book > History > 20th century (up to 1945); History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Second World War, Reportage & collected journalism, Inter-war period, 1918-1939, Gender studies: women and girls, Reportage, journalism or collected columns