The View from the Ground

by Gellhorn, Martha

• ISBN13: 9780871132123
• ISBN10: 0871132125
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-02-06
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

THE THIRTIES
Justice at Night	3	(7)
My Dear Mr. Hopkins	10	(23)
The Lord Will Provide for England	33	(16)
Obituary of a Democracy	49	(16)
The Thirties	65	(12)
THE FORTIES
Journey Through a Peaceful Land	77	(12)
Cry Shame	89	(6)
The Children Pay	95	(11)
The Forties	106	(9)
THE FIFTIES
The Most Unheard-of Thing	115	(5)
It Don't Matter Who Gets in, Dear	120	(9)
Spies and Starlings	129	(5)
Weekend in Israel	134	(8)
Home of the Brave	142	(15)
The Fifties	157	(10)
THE SIXTIES
Return to Poland	167	(16)
The Arabs of Palestine	183	(43)
Eichmann and the Private Conscience	226	(18)
Is There a New Germany	244	(16)
Monkeys on the Roof	260	(9)
Spiral to a Gun	269	(10)
A Tale of Two Wars	279	(6)
The Vietcong's Peacemaker	285	(6)
The Sixties	291	(10)
THE SEVENTIES
Beautiful Day of Dissent	301	(9)
When Franco Died	310	(12)
Christmas with the Outcast	322	(6)
The Seventies	328	(81)
THE EIGHTIES
White into Black	335	(12)
The Women of Greenham Common	347	(7)
On Torture	354	(16)
The Enemy Within	370	(5)
Newness of Life	375	(6)
Cuba Revisited	381	(28)
The Eighties	409