Front Line

by Clare Hollingworth

The memoirs of Clare Hollingworth, frontline reporter who worked on equal terms with men in a tough, dangerous profession. The book is being published 50 years after she sent back her first despatches from Poland as German tanks rolled in. She lived in Peking after the cultural revolution, and during the Algerian war she went alone into the dangerous Casbah in Algiers. She pursued and finally broke the story of Kim Philby when no one believed that he was the third man and had vanished to Russia.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Biography, War, Journalism

405 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Clare Hollingworth was an English journalist and author, who was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century".

Reviews

[Laura Florand · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an amazing woman. And also a fascinating trip through some of the major events of the twentieth century through her eyes, from her scoop of the start of WWII through the warming of US-Chinese relationships.