martha gail horne who became you know a journalist absolutely cut from original material. the rest of her life. just describe what she was like in the 1930s. in the 1930s so, she met hemingway in 1936 and he was about to go off to the spanish civil war, see it's impossible to leave him to the side, he won't be left to the side. and that was really her first war, and she was 28 years old. and for the rest of her like she really in madrid, found her true calling as a storyteller and her voice as a journalist and then she just went on to be one of the most significant war correspondents of the 20th century. had a nearly 60 year career as a journalist. a large part of the book takes place in spain and at one point, the listening to gail horne‘s own voice, she said she's been madrid for three weeks and it feels as if she's been there for years because of the intensity. yeah, so she lived in the hotel florida along with most of the other foreigners in madrid at the time and it was miles walking distance from the nearest front. madrid at that time in the spring of 1937 had been b