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coochiequeens · 11 months

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"She lied to a military police officer down by a hospital ship, said she was going to interview nurses about the 'woman’s angle,' and they let her on, because, as she said, no one gave a hoot about the woman’s angle. It served as the perfect forged passport for her," said Somerville. She resorted to those measures because her husband, Ernest Hemingway, tried to take over her journalist career.

This Saturday, June 6, will be the 76th anniversary of D-Day, the battle that would come to represent the beginning of the end of World War II.

There was just one woman, a war correspondent, on the beaches at Normandy that day the allied forces liberated Western Europe from Nazi Germany: the singular Martha Gellhorn. Author Janet Somerville traces Gellhorn’s extraordinary life in her book Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War.

"Since 1937, Martha had been a war correspondent for Collier’s magazine. She knew about the Allied invasion, that there was a plan to cover the Allied invasion of Normandy, and she was determined to cover that," Somerville said.

The problem was, her very famous husband at the time, Ernest Hemingway, pulled the rug out from under her professionally.

"Hemingway had gone to New York, introduced himself to her editor at Collier’s and said ‘I’ll be your war correspondent.’ And he took her accreditation papers. Which was a bit of a problem," said Somerville.

Each publication could send just one correspondent. But Gellhorn was resourceful and clever. She found herself passage on a munitions ship from New York that would get her to Europe. She was the only woman and the only civilian aboard that ship, which landed in Liverpool. Then, she just needed to get to Normandy.

"She lied to a military police officer down by a hospital ship, said she was going to interview nurses about the 'woman’s angle,' and they let her on, because, as she said, no one gave a hoot about the woman’s angle. It served as the perfect forged passport for her," said Somerville.

Once on board the hospital ship, Gellhorn locked herself into a bathroom until they sailed. When the ship docked in Normandy, she waded ashore through waist-deep water with some of the medical officers.

"She became the only woman and the only war correspondent to be actually on the beaches at Normandy, evacuating the wounded."

Though she was there as a journalist to write about the event, she couldn’t help but tend to the wounded soldiers. She had an uncanny ability, Somerville says, to focus on what needed to be done. So when she saw that the wounded were hungry and thirsty, she set to work.

"She just took it in her stride and found somebody who could bring teapots to tip into their mouths,if they couldn't hold a glass. She just took charge and made sure that they got something," Somerville said.

She also managed to be one of many correspondents who wrote about D Day.

"The incredible thing about D-Day is that accredited correspondents produced 700,000 words of text, just about D-Day," Somerville said. "Martha was one of them. She had a piece called 'Over and Back' that Collier’s published."

Gellhorn went on to report into her old age, from all corners of the globe. She filed her last piece, about the murdered street children of Salvador, Brazil, more than 50 years after D-Day, when she was 87 years old.

Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War, 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville is available at the link above, or wherever you buy your books.

#Women in history #Women in World War II #D-Day #women in journalism #Martha Gellhorn #janet Somerville #Yours #For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War #Books by women #books about women #Fuck Ernest Hemingway

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booksandbooklovers · 1 year

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#bookaholic #books by women #book blog #books & libraries #books #booklr #bookish #booklover #book review #booksbooksbooks #bookaddict #bookshelf #book quotes #book quote #quotes

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bymarahh · 16 days

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📚 Black Rose by Marah H

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violettesbooks · 3 months

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A young woman runs away from Argentina to Egypt in hopes of discovering the truth about her parent's untimely deaths only to find a conspiracy involving Cleopatra and a young man she can't seem to escape.

I thought this was a standalone, the ending got to me because I couldn't figure out how things would wrap up and then it ended on a sort of cliffhanger.

I did enjoy it, it was a good, YA mystery and I think the setting was well adapted but I wish I had known it was a duology.

Out: Now

#book review #books by women #books #fiction #new books #isabel ibanez #what the river knows

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savage-flirtation · 28 days

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runningwithinvisiblespectres · 8 months

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Morning poetry is slapping hard in the feels this morning 🌻

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readlikeido · 11 months

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babel: an arcane history - r. f. kuang

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chaoskirin · 7 months

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I wrote Shadecursed to fill a hole in my life dug by alienation and loneliness. All the characters are Different (tm) in some way, but each deals with their alienation differently.

Meadow isn't your stereotypical protagonist. He's not tough and mighty, but he is blessed with incredible magic. Being so incredibly gifted, he's been fought over his entire life by people who told him he wasn't properly applying himself. So he showed his ass to all of them.

Benji is physically different than everyone around him. And while his heart and soul are gentle, people avoid him because he looks terrifying. He just wants to be "normal." But will learn that sometimes being different is just what the world needs.

Ptery is brash and unforgiving. They are burdened with a trauma they can't remember, and don't want to remember. But this trauma has affected their whole life and how they perceive the world. It's only through their friends that healing can begin.

Luka is the recipient of some bad luck a while back, and rather than learning to live with it and move on, she tends to be angry and cast blame on others for all the ills in the world. She refuses to be a victim, but holds others accountable for their pristine lives.

If you want to learn more about these characters and how they solve their woes, check out the Shadecursed Kickstarter, back the project, and help make this story a reality!

Click here, or on the image above, to visit the campaign!

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coochiequeens · 3 months

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Never forget and never forget that the first victims of Auschwitz were young women.

When Nazi Germany occupied much of Poland at the outbreak of World War II, the parents of Erna and Fela Dranger sent their daughters over the border from their home in Tylicz to the eastern Slovakian town of Humenné. Their cousin Dina Dranger went with them. Erna, 20, and Fela and Dina, both 18, found jobs and settled in with the local Humenné Jewish community. At some point, Fela moved on to the Slovakian capital of Bratislava with a friend.

The girls’ parents thought they had sent their daughters to safety. But on March 25, 1942, Erna and Dina were among the nearly 1,000 teenage girls and unmarried young women deported on the first official transport of Jews to Auschwitz.

Told by Slovakian authorities that they would be going away to do government work service for just a few months, the Jewish girls and women were actually sold to the Germans by the the Slovaks for 500 Reich Marks (about $200) apiece as slave labor.

Erna Dranger (Courtesy of Heather Dune Macadam)

Fela Dranger (Courtesy of Heather Dune Macadam)

Very few of the 997 girls on that first transport — or any of the other early transports — survived the more than three hellish years until the end of the war. Erna, Fela and Dina Dranger beat the odds, with the sisters going on to raise families in Israel and their cousin Dina settling in France.

The story of what happened to these and the other women on the first transports to Auschwitz is told in “999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz,” a compelling new book by Heather Dune Macadam. (The Nazis had planned to deport 999 Jewish women on the initial transport, but Macadam discovered typos on the list — now held in the Yad Vashem archives — making the actual tally 997.)

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#January 27 #Holocaust Memorial Day #Women in war zones #Auschwitz #999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz #Heather Dune Macadam #Books about women #Books by women

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booksandbooklovers · 11 months

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Best tips to help you learn a language faster!

#books & libraries #booklover #books #book blog #bookish #bookaddict #booklr #books by women #language #learning #learning a language #study #education #self development #self importance

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starrynightsxo · 9 days

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FULL SHATTER ME SERIES BY TAHEREH MAFI BOOK REVIEW

NO SPOILERS AHEAD

1) Shatter Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25 -> lays a good overall foundation of the books and nice introduction to the fmc

1.5) Destroy Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -> provides much-needed mmc POV which helps us understand him more

2) Unravel Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -> interesting "unravelling" of events, feel like this book is crucial to the plot and her character development

2.5) Fracture Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ -> least favourite due to a certain character POV...

3) Ignite Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 -> I liked how the fmc and mmc relationship progressed and the plot was starting to come through more as well. Both complimented each other and there was some nice development.

4) Restore Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -> It was a bit boring at first but the ending saved it and was INTERESTING.

4.5) Shadow Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 -> Kenji POV was much appreciated and I liked but I felt that there wasn't much movement and it felt a bit unable to flow?

5) Defy Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 -> Took some time to get into BUT there were some good plot twists and revelations to keep things interesting.

5.5) Reveal Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -> For Kenji lovers, it had some plot but it focused more on him. Felt it had more flow than in Shadow Me and I enjoyed the actual plot more in this.

6) Imagine Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 -> All in all, I found the beginning a bit boring but it was the end that pulled it through for me. If you don't read for anything else, read for after around 100 pages because that is where it gets interesting.

6.5) Believe Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 -> A great wrap up of the whole series I thoroughly enjoyed this fluff filled novella. After the whole series I felt the fmc and mmc got the end they deserved and it was worth reading every part of this book. Especially how the relationship between the mmc and others grow even more and it's nice to see him come to realise this.

Time taken to read full series: 3 days shy of 1 month (from a moderate reader)

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violettesbooks · 3 months

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A girl with the magical ability to take lives, struggles to survive in an alternate world where an enemy Rome has taken over her homeland. In a twist of fate she finds herself working with a Roman prince but when war looms, she no longer knows who to trust nor if her choices can actually ensure the survival of her people.

This was a quick read, a bit slow paced at points but emotionally charged and politically savvy. I liked the world and the author did well painting a picture of the desperation of the people of Er-Lang.

Out: April 2024

#book review #books by women #books #fiction #arc #new books #2024 tbr #molly x chang #to gaze upon wicked gods

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jaxfarrbooks · 23 days

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BROKEN ARROW

My latest book available on KU

Chasing a traitor or saving a hero? Disgraced, and drummed out of the armed forces after an operation gone wrong, Captain Jackson Taylor is forced to undertake a mission he does not want or need…

Caught in a tangled web of deceit and lies, branded a traitor, undercover operative Maxine ‘Max’ Smith is on the run. She has nothing—no country, no contracts, no money—She has lost everything, including a crucial piece of her memory…

#authorjaxfarr #KU #amazon #kindle unlimited #romance #love story #novel #save the world #suspense #thiller #books #booksblr #books by women #booksbooksbooks #booksbooksandmorebooks

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lovelyy-moonlight · 11 months

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#elizabeth olsen #lizzie olsen #2023 #hattie harmony opening night #robbie arnett #books #books and libraries #children and adult books #books by women #booksbooksbooks #books and authors #tiktok #woman on tiktok #tiktok videos #celebrities on tiktok #celebrities on instagram #celebrities on social media

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