The Bitter Taste of Victory (92 page)

New Selected Journals of Stephen Spender
(ed. with John Sutherland)

The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War

‘Are you a war correspondent or wife in my bed?’ Hemingway and Gellhorn holidaying in Waikiki, Hawaii, 1941.

‘You’re brave. Nothing ever happens to the brave.’ Gellhorn with Indian soldiers of the British Army at Cassino, Italy, 1944.

General James Gavin

Marlene Dietrich

Ships that pass in the E.T.O.': Martha Gellhorn

Cologne, March 1945. According to Gellhorn, this was not so much a city as ‘one of the great morgues of the world’.

The general and the movie star. Dietrich seemed to look each soldier straight in the eye and say: ‘You mean something to me. I hope somehow I get through to you that I want to be here with you.’

‘Nobody seemed to mind except me.’ Lee Miller in Hitler’s apartment at 16 Prinzregentenplatz, photographed by David Scherman.

Mervyn Peake, ‘Condemned Cell at Belsen with Nazi War Criminal’.

‘Madly in love with each other, in the most tragic and mixed up fashion’. Klaus (
left
) and Erika Mann (pictured here in 1930) were often mistaken for twins or lovers.

‘An American Soldier Revisiting his Former Homeland’. Klaus Mann in the Manns’ house in Poschingerstrasse, May 1945.

Stephen Spender (
left
) – tall, shambling, red-faced, innocent – was assigned the role of disciple, lolloping behind the more self-assured poet, W. H. Auden (
right
), 1945.