I hope you will never get this letter

Before covering the Vietnam War, Martha Gellhorn writes to her mother

1944: Journalist and writer Martha Gellhorn in Italy talks to Indian soldiers of the British Army on the 5th Army's Cassino front. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Martha Gellhorn was born in 1908 and became one of the twentieth century’s most fearless journalists, reporting from almost every major conflict over six decades. In 1966, aged fifty-seven, sh…