Cover art for Looking for Trouble
Published
Faber & Faber, January 2022
ISBN
9780571367542
Format
Hardcover, 560 pages
Dimensions
21.6cm × 13.5cm × 4cm

Looking for Trouble 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)

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'I suppose this is what people call seeing history in the making .'

Madrid in the Spanish Civil War

Prague during the Munich crisis

Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland

Helsinki as the Russians attacked

Moscow betrayed by the Nazis

Paris as it fell to the Germans

London on the first day of the Blitz

Virginia Cowles has seen it all.

As a pioneering female correspondent, she reported from Europe from the 1930s into the Second World War, watching 'the lights in the death-chamber go out one by one' from the frontline - always in the right place at the right time.

Flinging off her heels under shellfire; meeting Hitler ('an inconspicuous little man') and the 'dapper' Mussolini; gossiping with Churchill by his goldfish pond or dancing in the bomb-blasted Ritz; reading The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism on a Soviet train or eating reindeer with guerrilla skiers...

Introduced by Christina Lamb, Cowles' incredible testimony will make you an eyewitness to the twentieth-century as you have never experienced it before.

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