American journalist Martha Gellhorn witnessed the largest military conflicts of the 20th century: from the Spanish Civil War to World War II, from the Soviet-Finnish to the Arab-Israeli War, from the American invasion of Vietnam to the conflicts in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s. Despising the lies of official press releases, Gellhorn went into the thick of things everywhere, talking with soldiers, wounded and refugees and writing about what war looks like for ordinary people caught in its millstones. Spanning nearly fifty years of bloodshed and failed attempts to establish a lasting peace, The Face of War is a slap-in-the-face statement on the state of humanity that has not aged well over the next half century. PDF A4 format retains the publisher's design.