Martha Gellhorn talks to Italian soldiers. Photograph: Keystone

 

My hero: Martha Gellhorn by Sinéad Morrissey

One of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century, Martha Gellhorn changed what it was possible for a woman to achieve

Friday 17 January 2014

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oetry, wrote WH Auden, makes nothing happen. This may or may not be true, and making things happen may or may not be something poetry should even aspire to. But this didn't stop Auden journeying to bear witness to the horrors of war throughout the 1930s – first in Spain, then in China – and it didn't stop him writing about what he saw.