Amerikanskaya zhurnalistka Marta Gellhorn byla svidetelnitsey krupneyshih voennyh stolknoveniy XX veka: ot grazhdanskoy voyny v Ispanii do Vtoroy mirovoy, ot sovetsko-finskoy do arabo-izrailskoy voyny, ot amerikanskogo vtorzheniya vo Vetnam do konfliktov v Salvadore i Nikaragua v 1980-e. Preziraya lozh ofitsialnyh press-relizov, Gellhorn vezde lezla v samoe peklo, obschalas s soldatami, ranenymi i bezhentsami i pisala, kak vyglyadit voyna dlya prostyh lyudey, popavshih v ee zhernova. Avtorskiy sbornik reportazhey «Litso voyny», ohvativshiy pochti pyatdesyat let krovoprolitiya i bezuspeshnyh popytok ustanovit prochnyy mir, - rezkoe, kak poschechina, vyskazyvanie o sostoyanii chelovechestva, nichut ne ustarevshee i za sleduyuschie polveka.
