I discovered this book by Iris Carpenter after just finishing The Correspondents, by Judith Mackrell. Whereas The Correspondents was published in 2022 and does a fine job of documenting the lives of six women correspondents during WWII, No Woman's World was contemporaneous with the war and was published shortly thereafter in January 1946. Although the topics and experiences of the women in both books is somewhat similar, the contrast in writing style and content is sometimes radically different.
Iris Carpenter became a front-line war correspondent during the preparations for D-Day and landed on the Normandy beaches on day four of D-Day. Women were generally forbidden to advance with their male counterparts, so Iris was initially reporting miles back from the front lines. Some of her early reporting covered field medical hospitals, which were deemed safer for women journalists. However, at times these temporary hospitals were closer to the front lines than the even the male correspondents were allowed, so her experience was very much on the edge of engagement with the enemy. She eventually had full access with the men and reported on all aspects of the war.
The Correspondents detailed the lives of six women prior to the war, during WWII, and their history after the war, and because it necessarily is focused on their lives, the book's description of the war itself is limited. In contrast, Iris Carpenter's account relies directly on her notes, interviews, and observations of the war up to the liberation of concentration camps, the forced slave camps involved with war production, and the final liberation of Berlin. She gives a first-had account of the progress of the war, documenting the movements of all Allied armies, the strategies of their generals, and the German defensive efforts. Her account of the Battle of the Bulge is particularly revealing and emotionally engaging. Throughout her accounts, the horror of war is revealed in vivid detail. Her writing reflects the urgency of publishing after slogging day-after-day in her Jeep across muddy roads cratered by artillery and covered with broken bodies and the discarded equipment of war. At times the editing seems hurried, almost in stream-of-thought mode, but there are many beautifully written sections that give immediacy to her experience. Overall, her book is highly recommended.
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No Woman’s World, first published in 1946, is the account of courageous war correspondent Iris Carpenter, one of the handful of female journalists covering the front-lines in Europe during the Second World War. Arriving four days after the D-Day landings, Carpenter traveled across France, was at the Huertgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, and finally went on to cover the meeting of U.S. and Russian forces and the final fall of Berlin. In addition to military actions, No Woman’s War describes field hospitals, life for French and German civilians, and a detailed look at the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBurtyrki Books
- Publication dateJanuary 30, 2020
- File size1145 KB
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- ASIN : B084C2J9B2
- Publisher : Burtyrki Books (January 30, 2020)
- Publication date : January 30, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 1145 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 391 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,312,230 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #614 in History of Military Special Forces
- #696 in Military Intelligence & Spies History
- #1,492 in History of Germany
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2023
- Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2016Very well written book that gives a lot more detailed information about each country, the battles, the soldiers, and the citizens as it is being conquered than I have found in previous books on the subject. Very readable. Very interesting view point of Invasion of Europe from the D Day invasion in WWII. Gives a wide overview.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2016Really good insight
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- JKReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing woman reporter
Action packed, fast paced reading. I felt as though I was in the thick of it with them all. Iris Carpenter was a fearless. amazing woman reporter. I didn't want to put it down.
- re steadReviewed in Canada on September 5, 2014
4.0 out of 5 stars good and worth read reading
I liked this book; it is about a worthy topic, female war correspondents, a much under reported topic. it is well written and full of interesting information on their involvement in the war