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A new book tells the stories of four interwar writers who laid the groundwork for modern journalism

Women writers fought bureaucracy and stereotypes to report from the front lines of World War II. "The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II" by

Women writers fought bureaucracy and stereotypes to report from the front lines of World War II. "The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II" by

Women writers fought bureaucracy and stereotypes to report from the front lines of World War II. "The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II" by

Women writers fought bureaucracy and stereotypes to report from the front lines of World War II. "The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II" by

A woman war journalist takes to the front lines of World War II.

“The Correspondents,” by Judith Mackrell, is a group portrait of six pioneering female war correspondents, and the considerable challenges they faced.

WWII was “the defining opportunity for female correspondents,” according to this immersive and revealing group biography. Guardian journalist Mackrell (Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generatio

Judith Mackrell                                                                                             Picador £20 Rating: Until the 1930s, female journalists were expected to know their place, which was mainly on the fashion or problem pages of the newspapers that employed them. But as the international situation darkened and war became imminent, a handful of remarkable women decided that they could not continue to sit in the office writing...

In ‘The Berlin Girl,’ a British journalist uncovers terrible secrets in 1937 Germany Bethanne Patrick © HarperCollins 360 The specter of 1930s Germany hangs over modern society, particularly when we ask how everyday citizens did little to arrest the evil in their midst. It’s a question British novelist Mandy Robotham also ponders in her new novel, “The Berlin Girl,” the story of fictional English journalist Georgina “Georgie” Young, which pays homage to real-li...