[2] Kate followed him out to Spain, working first as a correspondent for the Christian Monitor and later in the Government Press office, reporting to Constancia de la Mora and Luis Rubio Hidalgo.
Auden, Stephen Spender and Ernest Hemingway;[3] journalists including Lawrence Fernsworth, Hugh Slater, Kitty Bowler and Milly Bennett;[4] photographers including Walter Reuter, Robert Capa and Gerda Taro;[5] International Brigade volunteers such as Tom Wintringham and Bob Merriman; doctors such as Norman Bethune and nurses such as Patience Darton.
[6] After Jan was seriously injured by shrapnel, Kate tracked him down to a hospital in Murcia and managed to get him out of Spain to convalesce with friends in Paris.
After returning from Spain, Jan and Kate briefly reunited and their daughter, Charlotte Kurzke, was born in 1940.
[7] Kate’s memoir, Never More Alive: Inside the Spanish Republic, written shortly after her return to England, was recently published for the first time with a foreword by Professor Sir Paul Preston.