'I locked myself in a toilet until we were afloat': The woman who stowed away on a ship to report on D-Day ^16.8%

BBC - By Fiona Macdonald - 6/10/2026, 11:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 29.1% - Halo Effect 22.8% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 12.1%

'I locked myself in a toilet until we were afloat': The woman who stowed away on a ship to report on D-Day "Everyone was violently busy on that crowded, dangerous shore," writes Martha Gellhorn in a dispatch from the D-Day landings in June 1944. "We walked with the utmost care between the narrowly placed white tape lines that marked the... more