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Elizabeth Becker tells the story of three largely unknown but extraordinary female journalists who came into their own during the Vietnam War and the related conflict in Cambodia.
Catherine Leroy was a French photojournalist whose of-the-moment battlefield images led to her becoming the first woman to win a prestigious George Polk Award for photography.
Kate Webb was a no-nonsense correspondent from Australia who was erroneously reported captured, killed, and cremated by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, only to emerge from the jungle very much alive.
After paying her own way to Vietnam, Frances FitzGerald’s first article, published in the Village Voice, was an indictment of the chaotic US policy in Vietnam. Later, she published Fire in the Lake, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award.
Leroy, Webb, and Fitzgerald were three women from three different parts of the world who had one thing in…
6 authors picked You Don't Belong Here as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war.
Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade.
At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine and Kate paid their own way to war, arrived without jobs, challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement and…