Daily Mirror Palestine war diaries published

The memoires of Barbara Board, a Daily Mirror reporter for ten years, are to be published by her daughter Jacqueline in a new book, Reporting From Palestine. Barbara worked as Daily Mirror’s frontline war correspondent from Palestine in the 40’s and 50’s,

“It was fascinating to discover everything she had done as a female reporter in an almost entirely masculine world. She clearly she had a woman’s eye for the world. For example, when the Italian airforce bombed Tel Aviv, she was the only reporter who noticed the women running for their lives with their children.” link