Caroline Moorehead

Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark and Iris Origo.   She is well known for her work in human rights and has published a history of the International Committee of the Red Cross.   She lives in London and is currently writing a book about refugees, entitled Human Cargo.

Martha Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead
Chatto & Windus

Martha Gellhorn’s reporting tracks many of the flashpoints of the 20th century:  witnessing the Depression in a state of righteous fury, risking her life in the Spanish Civil War, and in the Second World War covering the fall of Czechoslovakia and the Normandy Landings, the liberation of Dachau and the Nuremberg Trials.   She reported from Vietnam and Israel and, at the age of 81, was covering the US invasion of Panama.  All her life, Martha fought against injustice.