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The view from the ground Hardcover – Import, January 1, 1989

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings

First published in 1959, but now offered in a revised and expanded edition, The View from the Ground presents over six decades of Gellhorn's ruminations on political, civil, and social issues and crises, from a lynching in the American South in the 1930s through a recent visit to Cuba to see what is new and what remains the same in a country that is still off limits to most Americans. Gellhorn's ability to get to the truth of a situation heard makes her writing transcend the short shelf life of most reportage.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Granta Books; First U. K. Edition (January 1, 1989)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140142002
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140142006
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
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Top reviews from the United States

  • Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2007
    Well worth the purchase price. This is the third Gellhorn book I've read as well as her biography and now that I'm finished I find I miss her as though she were actually someone I know. Very sharp descriptions of war following troop movements if not directly on the front lines. Her articles are full of Martha and her opinions. Good stuff. Also check out Gellhorn, The Face of War and Travels with Myself and Another.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2024
    Gellhorn was twice as intrepid & unflinching as most male correspondents in covering wars from before World War 2 through the 1980s until her health gave out. A model of grit, guts and damn good writing.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2013
    Martha Gellhorn was not one to follow convention. She forged her own path, often with courage and always with conviction. A woman of strong principles, she was constantly on the lookout for the people swept aside by larger economic and political forces and she wrote their stories. Her writing is forthright and her judgements sharp and clear. You may not always agree with the point she is making, but you can't possibly miss it. She tells it as she sees it with reportage from settings as diverse as the end of Franco's Spain, battered postwar Poland, US coalmining families in the depth of the Great Depression, Eichmann's trial and seething Haiti. Her canvass is humanity and especially the downtrodden, the marginalised and the excluded. She reminds us constantly of the charge we each carry to protect freedom and challenge injustice, everywhere. Her collection of essays is the perfect scorecard of freedom's triumphs and setbacks over much of the last century and her warning remains as true and relevant now as did in any of the decades she surveys from the 1930s to the 1980s - "Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance."
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2012
    Martha Gellhorn is by far the most adventurous female war correspondent from 1939-1963. This women went places most soldiers would not dare go and she wrote about her experiences with a colorful and very personal perspective. Her world travels culminated into a series of books meant to entertain and engage the reader of the stories of real people and their relation to world events.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2016
    Some of these articles are very relevant to issues of today. She was a really insightful reporter. Better writer than her ex, Whatshisname.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2021
    Gellhorn reports on what the effects of war were on people who were caught in the middle, not the heroic war stories traded in the officers' clubs of the world. She was not a perfect person, but she went to see for herself and reported, at times using story-telling, rather than death by power point approaches (dry data presentations).
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2014
    Her stories are always well observed and well written. She is my kind of writer. I am sure that Hemingway did not like her style since it rivaled his for quality.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2013
    I became interested in her when I saw Hemingway and Gellhorn. The movie led me to read Travels With Myself and Another. From then on I have read both her fiction and non fiction. This book covers from the 1930s to the 80s: what this amazing woman did and saw and reported covering everything from the depression to the Army MacCarthy Hearings. It's America's story told by an amazing reporter.
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  • Appletango
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Best in 85 years.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2017
    If it was possible it would have to be at least a 6 Star rating. The most thought provoking work I have read. I've been totally immersed, even when not altogether in step with the Author's views. It has filled in many a gap in my understanding of political skulduggery.
  • Francesca Gattullo
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must of peace time narrative reportage
    Reviewed in Italy on October 12, 2014
    I had read the book a number of years ago and wished to have it on my shelves. I have been reading it since I received it and strongly recommend it for its smoothless prose, critical perspective and originality. A never aging classic of reportage.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2017
    A brilliant reporter - very inciseful and clear.
  • Mr R Sellwood
    3.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read spoilt by technical issues on the Kindle version I bought.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2022
    The travels of the author are extraordinary and the places she visits and the issues she comments on are based on acute observation with intelligence and lack of hearsay.
    However, my experience of this Kindle version was spoilt by the loss of sentences when flipping to a following page.
    I shall claim a refund when I have finished the book.
  • TERENCE TOCHEL
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2015
    Great read