Prologue: "That dragon from Chicago" -- A trilingual child -- Stranded -- Enemy alien -- "How to meet a revolution" -- Finding her own people -- The training of a foreign correspondent -- Musical chairs -- Front-page girls, stunt reporters, sob sisters, and mob sisters -- The "right man" for the job -- On the job -- Love and loneliness -- "The fascisti are very restless" -- When putsch comes to shove -- Let the games begin -- AKA John Dickson -- Never entirely at peace -- On the air from Berlin -- War seemed inevitable -- The Berlin blues -- Going home -- Sick and tired -- "A mild little war mongering tour" -- From foreign correspondent to war correspondent -- Bearing witness -- War crimes -- Epilogue.