Author:
Cowles, Virginia, author.
Edition Statement:Modern Library trade paperback edition.
ImprintNew York : The Modern Library, 2022.
Imprint2021
Descriptionxix, 470 pages ; 21 cm
Note:"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Harper & Brothers, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 1941. This edition, including the foreword by Christina Lamb, was originally published in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber Limited in 2021."--Title page verso.
Note:Republican Spain -- Nationalist Spain -- Spring shadows -- Bargain time in Europe -- Soviet Russia -- World War Second -- David and Goliath -- The fall of France -- England fights on.
Note:Virginia Cowles was just twenty-seven years old when she decided to transform herself from a society columnist into a foreign press correspondent. Looking for Trouble is the story of this evolution, as Cowles reports from both sides of the Spanish Civil War, London on the first day of the Blitz, Nazi-run Munich, and Finland's bitter, bloody resistance to the Russian invasion. Along the way, Cowles also meets Adolf Hitler ("an inconspicuous little man"), Benito Mussolini, Winston Churchill, Martha Gellhorn, and Ernest Hemingway. Her reportage blends sharp political analysis with a gossip columnist's chatty approachability and a novelist's empathy. Cowles understood in 1937--long before even the average politician--that Fascism in Europe was a threat to democracy everywhere. Her insights on extremism are as piercing and relevant today as they were seventy years ago.
