You Don't Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker

Her work went on to win the highest accolades in photography, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award.

And at only 22, the French Catherine Leroy was one of the only female photographers in Vietnam.

Frankie Fitzgerald arrived in Vietnam as a freelancer but her powerful coverage earned her bylines in The New Yorker, and she became the first woman war reporter for the magazine. Kate Webb, an Australian reporter, was captured by the Vietcong only to continue her fearless reporting after her release. Using the stories of Catherine, Frankie and Kate, Elizabeth Becker traces the war in Vietnam from the Tet Offensive to the revolution in Cambodia to the American defeat and aftermath. Over the course of the Vietnam War they challenged the rules and expectations imposed on them, all in an effort to get the story right. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Kate Webb were the first female frontline journalists in the history of US war reporting. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. Agent: David Halpern, Robbins Office (Feb.About the Book 'One spent 23 days in captivity. Readers interested in women’s history and foreign affairs won’t be able to put this fascinating chronicle down. Becker, who also reported from Cambodia in the 1970s, fluidly sketches the history and politics of the Vietnam War and captures her subjects in all their complexity. In 1971, North Vietnamese soldiers in Cambodia took Australian reporter Kate Webb prisoner and held her for more than two weeks, leading to erroneous reports of her death. Frances FitzGerald, the daughter of a CIA deputy director, circulated among the American elite in South Vietnam, Becker notes, but her reporting, which culminated in the book Fire in the Lake, centered on Vietnamese history and culture and explored how America’s “ham-fisted policies” delegitimized its allies in South Vietnam. During the 1968 Tet Offensive, French photojournalist Catherine Leroy rode a bicycle into the Communist-occupied city of Hue and took the first pictures of North Vietnamese Army soldiers in South Vietnam (the photos appeared on the cover of Life magazine). Journalist Becker ( Overbooked) delivers a crisp and incisive group biography of three women who battled sexism and broke new ground while reporting on the Vietnam War and the U.S.

You Don't Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker