"The inspiring true story of Martha Gellhorns perilous, secret journey to become the only female journalist to cover the D-Day landings of 1944. Martha Gellhorn was one of the worlds greatest war correspondents, travelling to hotspots to report on conflicts including the Spanish Civil War, World War Two, the Vietnam War and the Arab-Israeli wars. She wrote for Colliers magazine, which could only send one journalist to cover the invasion of France in June 1944. When Ernest Hemingway - Gellhorns estranged husband and the most famous writer in the world - offered his services, they took away Gellhorns pass and gave it to him. Undeterred, the night before the invasion she blagged her way on to a hospital ship and locked herself in the lavatory until it was too late to send her back. She worked as a nurse on board, treating both Allied and German casualties before going ashore with the soldiers, filing her brilliant reports from the scene of the battle. (And Hemingway? His boat turned back because of bad weather.)"--Publishers description.