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The compelling story of 100 courageous American women who after leaving their families joined combat-zone fighting with each other during World Battle II to chronicle and survey faithfully back again to the Expresses. Nancy Sorel's family portrait pays off homage to these unsung heroes. They came from Boston, NY, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa; from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA and all points east. They kept comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone work. As women conflict correspondents, they taken to the battlefields of World Battle II a fresh optic, and reported back what they observed with a fresh sensibility. Their experience was simultaneously wide-ranging and personal, damaging at one point in time, heartwarming the next. In this important and timely reserve, Nancy Sorel eloquently shows the role they enjoyed in getting the conflict to the people back home. In their ranks we face world-famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the one western photographer to protect the Nazi invasion of the USSR and among the first to photograph Buchenwald; Martha Gellhhorn, article writer and better half of Ernest Hemingway, who reported the menace of fascism right from the start; Lee Miller, legendary photographer, famously snapped taking a bathroom in Hitler's bath tub in 1945; the New Yorker's Janet Flanner, documenting in her "Letter from Paris" the bleak realities of life in post-liberation France; and Marguerite Higgins, who dared enter into the attention camp at Dachau just ahead of the American army. These courageous reporters and dozens more formed the crucial link in the long string of women's have difficulties for full equality in a profession hitherto dominated by men. In her visual, seamless narrative, Nancy Sorel weaves collectively the lives and times of the gutsy, incomparable women, assuring them their rightful devote this century's background.
