- Gebundene Ausgabe: 128 Seiten
- Verlag: Crown Books for Young Readers; Auflage: 1 (12. Februar 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0517800756
- ISBN-13: 978-0517800751
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,3 x 21,2 x 1,7 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.917.428 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The only foreign photographer in the Soviet Union when Hitler's troops invaded in 1941, "Adolf Hitler's greatest enemy," the first journalist to enter the concentration camp at Dachau before American troops arrived to liberate it--these are descriptions of some of the courageous World War II correspondents who risked their lives to report on the outrage, devastation, and hope of war. What makes them especially notable is that they are all women. Penny Colman's remarkable book tells of some of the 127 women who defied the traditional gender barrier to become accredited war correspondents. Reporting on Iwo Jima, concentration camps, famous battles, and Nazi rallies, stellar writers and photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White and Clare Boothe Luce scooped many of their male colleagues, and gave the folks back home a real image of war. Breathtaking photographs, actual newspaper dispatches, and edge-of-seat descriptions of the near misses the correspondents experienced as they followed the war make this book the ultimate for girls in search of girl power inspiration. Penny Colman is the author of many award-winning titles, including Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II and Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America. (Ages 11 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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*Starred Review* Gr. 6-9. Colman, the author of several books on women's history, including Rosie the Riveter (2000), which chronicled the lives of women on the home front during World War II, now looks at women who spent the war years in the middle of the conflict as reporters and photographers. By using these journalists' words and pictures as well as her own authorial skills, Colman impressively recreates the backdrop of the war--the danger, confusion, even the stench--and introduces women whose skill at their jobs and bravery in the face of horror allowed them to report the news through their own unique perspectives. The book briefly looks at early women journalists, then follows pioneering reporters who were soon joined by other women, many of whom had to fight, and in some cases lie, to get credentials simply because of their sex. With more than 15 journalists followed through the text, it may not always be easy for children to distinguish between them, even though some, such as Martha Gellhorn and Margaret Bourke-White, stand out. However, the text is briskly readable, and the 70 black-and-white photos are impressive and well chosen (although they do not always correspond to the text). Source notes would have been appreciated, but this well-handled book profoundly captures both the times and the struggle of women who had the talent to do the job male reporters did, but had to fight harder to do it. Ilene Cooper
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Especially recommended reading for ages 10 and older.
29. März 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
During the second world war, over a hundred women obtained official accreditation from the US War Department as war correspondents, finding ways to cover combat to break major war stories. Where The Action Was tells their stories and some of the incredible lengths they went to in order to provide inside coverage during the war. Over seventy black and white photos pepper this account of their lives, achievements and courage: ages 10 and up will find it intriguing.
Unique history of World War II
3. April 2012
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
A well-written different view on the story of World War II
Published in 2002 by Crown Publishers (Random House)
World War II histories abound. Histories of the complete war, various theaters, biographies of units and single officers fill the bookshelves. I have seen books that look at the role of women in the war - the home front, as pilots, intelligence officers and so on. But, I have never seen anything about female war correspondents. I did not even know that there were female war correspondents - I simply assumed that the sexist attitudes of the day would have not allowed them to work.
Happily, I have been enlightened by Penny Colman. She tells the story of the war through the eyes of several female war correspondents - sometimes through direct quotes, sometimes through reproductions of the headlines of their articles that are placed throughout like in a scrapbook. The history of the war and the story of these war correspondents was woven together seamlessly and very well done. The pictures are either pictures of the women correspondents or pictures taken by them (or both).
Female correspondents were everywhere - at the taking of the Sudetenland by German, scooped the rest of the world on the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, among the refugees fleeing Paris, in Moscow when Germany attacked the USSR, in Europe, on Iwo Jima, there when concentration camps were liberated, in Italy and on and on and on.
Published in 2002 by Crown Publishers (Random House)
World War II histories abound. Histories of the complete war, various theaters, biographies of units and single officers fill the bookshelves. I have seen books that look at the role of women in the war - the home front, as pilots, intelligence officers and so on. But, I have never seen anything about female war correspondents. I did not even know that there were female war correspondents - I simply assumed that the sexist attitudes of the day would have not allowed them to work.
Happily, I have been enlightened by Penny Colman. She tells the story of the war through the eyes of several female war correspondents - sometimes through direct quotes, sometimes through reproductions of the headlines of their articles that are placed throughout like in a scrapbook. The history of the war and the story of these war correspondents was woven together seamlessly and very well done. The pictures are either pictures of the women correspondents or pictures taken by them (or both).
Female correspondents were everywhere - at the taking of the Sudetenland by German, scooped the rest of the world on the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, among the refugees fleeing Paris, in Moscow when Germany attacked the USSR, in Europe, on Iwo Jima, there when concentration camps were liberated, in Italy and on and on and on.
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Women Pioneers Go Down in "Herstory"
3. Juni 2002
Format:Bibliothekseinband
..."There were many dead and many wounded but the survivors contained the fluid situation and slowly turned it into a retreat, and finally, as the communiqué said, the bulge was ironed out. This was not done fast or easily; and it was not done by those anonymous things, armies, divisions, regiments. It was done by men, one by one, your men." -Martha Gellhorn, writing on the Battle of the Bulge in 1944
Where the Action Was takes us on a journey through the past, looking at the pioneers of women journalists in action as they faced danger, death, and the images of war. Colman captures different moments throughout the war, from the very beginning, to Pearl Harbor, to the liberation of concentration camps, to the dropping of the atomic bombs.
The amazing tales of many talented women writers are accurately detailed, and they show us the adversities our female predecessors had to overcome for us women to be where we are today. Traveling as stowaways on boats, risking their lives to report the truth, disregarding orders given by military leaders, and being arrested all in a day's work for these stubborn and talented writers.
I'll bet you've never heard of Dickey Chappelle, Ann Stringer, Margaret Bourke-White, and Martha Gellhorn. Neither had I, until I read this book. Now I question the fact that none of this information is taught in class, or why these heroic, talented women must remain in anonymity. ...
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