The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War IIfrom Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent. "Thrilling from the first page to the last. " Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women "Just as women are so often written out of war, so it seems are the female correspondents. Mackrell corrects this omission admirably with stories of six of the best,Mackrell has done us all a great service by assembling their own fascinating stories. " New York Times Book Review. On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men. The Correspondents follows six remarkable women as their lives and careers intertwined- Martha Gellhorn, who got the scoop on Ernest Hemingway on D-Day by traveling to Normandy as a stowaway on a Red Cross ship, Lee Miller, who went from being a Vogue cover model to the magazine's official war correspondent, Sigrid Schultz, who hid her Jewish identity and risked her life.