BIOGRAPHY HISTORY MILITARY

“A remarkable woman’s lifetime odyssey as a world-beating war correspondent.”

Clare Hollingworth OBE (10 October 1911 – 10 January 2017) was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as “the scoop of the century”.^[1] As a rookie reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany, she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; The Daily Telegraph headline read: “1,000 tanks massed on Polish border”; three days later she was the first to report the German invasion of Poland.^[2]

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