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“... The Astors’ failure (in her eyes) to live up to some similar ideal is probably what makes Virginia Cowles sound a bit bad-tempered. She does not love them, and though the American public may have ‘looked upon [them] as their own species of royalty’ they have no glamour for her. They are just a job for her typewriter, which clacks on through ...”

“... during the siege. Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn and Herbert Matthews of the New York Times and Virginia Cowles were among that crew, most of them hotly committed to the anti-fascist cause. Gellhorn, with mounting desperation, used her friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt to warn of the consequences of non-intervention and plead for American ...”

“... sympathisers includes Dos Passos, Hemingway, Gellhorn, Claud Cockburn, Matthews, Josephine Herbst, Virginia Cowles. Their attempts to make sense of the conflict on the ground and exert influence on behalf of the Republic are told in detail. So are their altercations, including a famous falling out between Hemingway and Dos Passos over the execution of ...”

“... Mavis Tate about Buchenwald. Laura Knight and Rebecca West covered the Nuremberg trials as Fleur Cowles had covered the Nuremberg rally eight years previously. But the women who described themselves, persistently and irritatingly, as ordinary, unimportant, even simple, did tend to write as though they really were those things. For a lark they went to tea at ...”