First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent
First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1250276578 | 382 Pages | EPUB (True) | 21 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1250276578 | 382 Pages | EPUB (True) | 21 MB
She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the Second World War. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army and across the Sierra Maestra Mountains with Castro. She was the first reporter accredited with the Algerian National Liberation Front, and survived torture in a communist Hungarian prison. She dove out of planes, faked her own kidnapping, and endured the mockery of male associates, before ultimately dying on assignment in Vietnam with the Marines in 1965, the first American female journalist killed while covering combat.