After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
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About Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn was a 20th-century American war correspondent. Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American novelist, travel writer and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war