INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: A vivid collection of fifty years of peacetime journalism, selected by Gellhorn herself, and introduced by author and journalist Sam Knight

Martha Gellhorn's peacetime dispatches bear witness to six decades of change: America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Spain in the days after Franco's death, Cuba revisited after forty-one years. Here is history as it looked and felt to the people who lived through it. Intense, courageous and vividly readable, The View from the Ground is a remarkable act of testimony. With a new introduction by Sam Knight, author of The Premonitions Bureau.

"Read and learn from her humanitarianism, be fired by the power of her writing and her haunting sense of place" - Independent