Martha Gellhorn’s friend Virginia Cowles had been the Sunday Times correspondent during the Second World War. The paper’s star reporter in Vietnam was Nicholas Tomalin, famous for writing “The General Goes Zapping Charlie Cong,” one of the first pieces to reveal the casual way U.S. forces killed civilians. Tomalin himself had been killed by a Syrian missile in 1973, while reporting the Yom Kippur War.
