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A Stricken Field: A Novel Paperback – September 15, 2011

by Martha Gellhorn (Author), Caroline Moorehead (Foreword)
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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 and witnessed its transformation from a proud democracy preparing to battle Hitler to a country occupied by the German army. Born out of this experience, A Stricken Field follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to obtain help for the refugees and to convey the shocking state of the country both frustrating and futile. A convincing account of a people under the brutal oppression of the Gestapo, A Stricken Field is Gellhorn’s most powerful work of fiction.

 

“[A] brave, final novel. Its writing is quick with movement and with sympathy; its people alive with death, if one can put it that way. It leaves one with aching heart and questing mind.”—New York Herald Tribune

 

“The translation of [Gellhorn’s] personal testimony into the form of a novel has . . . force and point.”—Times Literary Supplement
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“Miss Gellhorn . . . is an admirable reporter. She has intelligence, feeling, a seeing eye, and she writes a clean, contemporary prose. . . . [A Stricken Field] is a compelling book and a moving one.”
― New York Times


“[A] brave, final novel. Its writing is quick with movement and with sympathy; its people alive with death, if one can put it that way. It leaves one with aching heart and questing mind.”
― New York Herald Tribune


“The translation of [Gellhorn’s] personal testimony into the form of a novel has . . . force and point.”
― Times Literary Supplement

"A Stricken Field is packed with as much tension, menace and dread as any contemporary thriller."—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune

-- Julia Keller ― Chicago Tribune

"[A Stricken Field] is a gut-punch of a novel that powerfully illustrates how Western societies fail in their duty to protect the most vulnerable among us: stateless and homeless refugees." -- Anne Boyd Rioux ― LitHub Published On: 2020-01-13

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Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) was one of the best-known war correspondents of the twentieth century, as well as a novelist and travel writer and, briefly, Hemingway’s third wife. Over the course of her career, she reported on the Depression, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Six-Day War in the Middle East, the civil wars in Central America, and other major events. She is the author of the novels The Wine of Astonishment and The Face of War and of the memoir Travels with Myself and Another, an account of her life with Hemingway.    

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (September 15, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 314 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226286967
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226286969
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
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Richard L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Gelhorn gives you a view of Prague in 1938 after ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2016
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Gelhorn gives you a view of Prague in 1938 after the Munich accord gave Germany power with the backing of England and France to dissolve the most industrial county in Europe. The unfolding events of NAZI take over and terror are witnessed through the eyes of Mary Douglas a journalist from America observing and two Germany communist Rita and Peter who fled prisons in Germany only to be under a order to vacate Prague in 24 hours. Gelhorn lets you feel the tension and terror of the people caught in a beautify city and country just before the outbreak of world war !!.
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A. Finch
4.0 out of 5 stars Gellhorn writes of War
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
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A Stricken Field is a book written by Martha Gellhorn about a now forgotten period of European history. Neville Chamberlain sold Czechoslovakia out to Adoplh Hitler to secure "peace in our time" in 1938. The story of what happened to the people of that forsaken country as the Germans moved in and tore it to pieces is largely forgotten today. But Gellhorn's journalist narrator, Mary Douglas, tries desperately but futilely to aid refugees who are trying to either get out of the country or survive the German onslaught within it.

This is a sad but well written book. Gellhorn herself did not think much of it and the book's reputation has languished because of it. One wonders what Gellhorn would make of today's world, where borders are closed and efforts are made to turn away refugees fleeing persecution and disaster in their own homelands.
A Stricken Filed is not an easy book to read. The writing is clear and precise- as Gellhorn was a world famous journalist with an mistakable prose style. But the scenes of refugee life, the uncertainty, the fear, the hope and the disasters, take the reader on a highly emotional journey. I would recommend this book- but only to people who can deal with high doses of desperation.
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Jay Piell.
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2022
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I found this book most interesting because the author was a war correspondent so you're reading the story from a different perspective than an author telling a story.
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K. alexander
5.0 out of 5 stars Not Alan Furst
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2017
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Gripping, enlightening, totally absorbing. Perhaps because this is a contemporaneous account, The Stricken Field vividly pictures "what history is like for people who have no choice except to live through it or die from it," and the frustration and despair of the lucky ones who can only watch helplessly in a way even the excellent Mr Furst cannot begin to match. Right now, when that winning Hitlerian tactic "the Big Lie" is again so prevalent, I wish every "lucky, lucky, lucky" American would read this.
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David Shulman
4.0 out of 5 stars Obituary of a Democracy
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2017
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Martha Gellhorn’s 1940 novel is not a great book, but an important one. Her book can be viewed as a novelized version of her December 10, 1938 Collier’s Weekly article entitled “Obituary of a Democracy” which described life in post-Munich Prague. Gellhorn arrived in Prague just after covering the Spanish Civil War where she established her reputation as a war reporter and was Ernest Hemingway’s lover. She would become his third wife in 1940 and go on to become one of the great war reporters of the 20th Century.

The novel’s protagonist is reporter Mary Douglas, Gellhorn’s alter ego if you will. She is there to cover the demoralization of Czechoslovakia after being sold out by England and France at Munich. As a result the Czechs surrendered the Sudetenland to Hitler. With that the Czech’s lost their defensible border with Germany and it became inevitable that the Germany would ultimately swallow up the heart of the country.

Mary Douglas notes the demoralization of the Czech Army which was not defeated in battle as the soldiers return home. It is one thing to lose a war; it is another to surrender without a fight. With the German occupation of the Sudetenland, Prague is flooded with refugees who join other fleeing Hitler from Germany and Austria. Among the Germans are two communists, Peter and Rita who Douglas befriends. Little did they know that their resistance to Hitler would soon be sold out by Stalin. Those two organize safe houses for the refugees but with European borders closed they are trapped when the Czech government orders them all home. Rita and Peter then go on the run and Peter would soon face a horrific torture by Gestapo agents operating with seeming impunity in Prague. Democracy is dying.

Gellhorn’s prose puts you in the place of the demoralized soldier, the struggling resistance and the hopeless refugee. In a way it is a lesson for our time.
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Elliott Miller
3.0 out of 5 stars NIce story and prose.
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2018
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The ending could've been better.
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Penny Harrington
5.0 out of 5 stars A Window into Czechoslovakia during the tumultuous events after the Nazi aggression
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2021
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While technically a novel, this work provides an in depth look into the agony of those who were among the first victims of Nazi aggression.
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Linda
5.0 out of 5 stars A Genius at Her Craft
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2020
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Martha Gellhorn was a superb writer. I purchased the book because I wanted to read well crafted writing, and this book as well as the last Gellhorn book I read, The Trouble I've Seen, exceeded my expectations.
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