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A wonderfully witty and smart memoir of the activities, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, among America's most significant war correspondents and the 3rd partner of Ernest Hemingway."Gellhorn is incompetent at writing a boring sentence."-The Changing Times (London)"Martha Gellhorn was therefore courageous in a male method, and yet totally with the capacity of producing males soften," writes New Yorker literary manager Bill Buford. Being a correspondent, Gellhorn included every military struggle in the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her bravery because they dodged covering fireplace together.Hemingway is, obviously, the unnamed "additional" in the name of the sour memoir, first published in 1979, by which Gellhorn explains her world-spanning activities, both supported and alone. With razor-sharp wit and exemplary insight into location and personality, she tells of the tight week used among dissidents in Moscow; lengthy times whiled away in a disused water container with hippies grouped at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her trips by sampan and mount towards the inside of China throughout the Sino-Japanese War.Now including a foreword by Bill Buford and pictures of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new version rediscovers the speech of a fantastic girl and brings back into print an irresistibly enjoyable vintage.