LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

'The Classic Memoir of a Trailblazing War Correspondent', this chunky Faber hardback has a foreword by Christina Lamb. This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic. Paris as it fell to the Nazis. London on the first day of the Blitz. Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland. Madrid in the Spanish Civil War. Prague during the Munich crisis. Lapland as the Russians attacked. Moscow betrayed by the Germans. Virginia Cowles has seen it all. As a pioneering female correspondent, she reported from the frontline of 1930s Europe into the Second World War, always in the right place at the right time. Flinging off her heels under shellfire, meeting Hitler ('an inconspicuous little man'), gossiping with Churchill by his goldfish pond, dancing in the bomb-blasted Ritz, eating reindeer with Finnish guerrilla skiing squads, escaping Paris hours before the Nazi occupation, interviewing Mussolini alone in Rome - Cowles risks her life daily in pursuit of the truth. Here is a rediscovered classic so wonderfully vivid you'll feel you are there too. Dazzling and riveting, this is the most entertaining memoir to come out of a dark decade. Her ability to capture anecdotes and dialogue offer surprising insights into historic personages and events. 531pp.