Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949

By Martha Gellhorn, Janet Somerville

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 is a 2019 collection edited by Janet Somerville and published by Firefly Books, gathering the correspondence of the pioneering American war correspondent and novelist Martha Gellhorn. The letters, many previously unpublished, follow Gellhorn from her arrival in Paris in 1930 through the Spanish Civil War, her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her reporting from Europe in World War II, revealing a brave, sharp-eyed writer long overshadowed by her famous husband.

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• Margaret Atwood: “The letters of the intrepid and passionate war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn – collected by Janet Somerville in Yours, For Probably Always – written during the Spanish Civil War and WWII – have an immediacy and fluency that’s very up close and appealing.”