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 World War II 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.

Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was one of the best-known war correspondents of the twentieth century, as well as a novelist and travel writer and, briefly, Ernest Hemingway's 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, as well as the memoir Travels with Myself and Another, an account of her life with Hemingway.

Martha Gellhorn: Martha Gellhorn, 1908 geboren in St. Louis/Missouri begnete Hemingway 1936 in Key West; ab 1937 waren sie in Spanien, 1940 folgte die Heirat (Martha war seine dritte Ehefrau). Robert Capa hat die Hochzeit für das "Life"-Magazin verewigt. Martha Gellhorn war Kriegsreporterin: Spanien im Bürgerkrieg, Prag vor dem Einzug der Deutschen, Finnland beim Einmarsch der Roten Armee, das KZ Dachau kurz nach der Befreiung. Später erlebte sie die Gewaltorgien in Vietnam, im Nahen Osten, in Mittelamerika.