For rent: apartment in Chelsea war correspondent Martha Gellhorn

When all journalists were denied journalistic accreditation to report on the Normandy landings in 1944, war correspondent Martha Gellhorn put on a disguise.

She posed as a nurse, snuck into a hospital ship, and locked herself in a bathroom until the ship sailed for France. She became the only woman to land in Normandy on D-Day – and was arrested by military police when she returned to England.

Her then-husband Ernest Hemingway similarly hampered her career.

After Gellhorn left him in Havana on the Italian front in 1943, he wrote anxiously to her, “Are you a war postcard or a woman in my bed?”

But Gellhorn supposedly didn’t look at the time in bed with Hemingway with much affection. As she later said, “My whole memory of having sex with Ernest is an invention of excuses, and if it doesn’t, I hope it’s over soon.” In 1945, they divorced.