They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from San Francisco and points east. They left comfortable homes and safe sourroundings for combat-zone duty. They were women war correspondants, bringing to the battlefields of World War II a fresh perspective, reporting what they witnessed with a new sensiblity. The women who wrote the war include world-famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only Western photgrapher to cover the Nazi invasion of the USSR; writer Martha Gelhorn, wife of Ernest Heminghway and one of the first reporters to document the menace of fascism; Lee Miller, the legendary photographer who took a bath in Hitler's tub; and dozens more gutsy women whose devastating and heartwarming reports are captured in this seemless narrative that assures them, at last, their rightful place in history.

1.Groundbreakers 1 -- 2. Cassandras of the Coming Storm 12 -- 3. Apprentices in Spain 25 -- 4. Lessons of Czechoslovakia 43 -- 5. One Thought, One Holy Mission: Poland 58 -- 6. Waiting for Hitler: The Phony War 71 -- 7. Fleeing France 81 -- 8. Braving the Blitz 92 -- 9. Working Under the Swastika 106 -- 10. Margaret Bourke-White Shoots the Russian War 117 -- 11. Treading Water, Marking Time 125 -- 12. China Hands 131 -- 13. Facing the War That Is Our War Now 148 -- 14. Women Behind Walls: Manila, Siena, Shanghai 159 -- 15. Learning the Rules, Dressing the Part 170 -- 16. Women on Trial: North Africa 180 -- 17. Touching Base on Five Continents 193 -- 18. Slogging Through Italy 200 -- 19. New Women Come Over for Overlord 211 -- 20. D Day 224 -- 21. Trekking North from Rome 235 -- 22. That Summer in France 242 -- 23. Liberating Paris 256 -- 24. Crossing the Siegfried Line 272 -- 25. Battle of the Bulge 283 -- 26. Penetrating the Pacific Barriers 293 -- 27. Iwo Jima 301 -- 28. Of Rain, Ruin, Relationships, and the Bridge at Remagen 314 -- 29. Month of April: The Advance 330 -- 30. Month of April: The Camps 347 -- 31. Longed-for Day 362 -- 32. "It Is Not Over, Over Here" 377 -- 33. Women Winding Up a War 382.