CROWLES VIRGINIA
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 Introduced by Christina Lamb, Cowles incredible dispatches make you an eyewitness to the twentieth century as you have never experienced it before.
