American journalist Martha Gellhorn witnessed the greatest military conflicts of the 20th century: from the Spanish Civil War to World War II, from the Soviet-Finnish War to the Arab-Israeli War, from the American invasion of Vietnam to the conflicts in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s. Disdainful of the lies of official press releases, Gellhorn plunged into the thick of things, interacting with soldiers, the wounded, and refugees, and documenting what war looks like for ordinary people caught in its millstones. Her collection of reports, 'The Face of War,' spans nearly fifty years of bloodshed and failed attempts to establish a lasting peace. It is a stark, slap-in-the-face commentary on the state of humanity, one that remains as relevant today as it was half a century ago.