First to the Front : The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent - Lorissa Rinehart

First to the Front

The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent

By: Lorissa Rinehart

Hardcover | 11 July 2023

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The first biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents.

"She was totally fearless, James Michener once wrote of Dickey Chapelle. I would draw back from spots of danger, she would always crowd forward. I was older than she, she more experienced...If she were a man, they would have called her a hero."

From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn't touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed.

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 Revolutionary Army, 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 woman killed in combat.

Chapelle overcame discrimination and abuse, both on the battlefield at at home, with much of her work ultimately buried from the public eye--until now. In First to the Front, Lorissa Rinehart uncovers the incredible life and unparalleled acheivements of this true pioneer, and the mark she would make on history.

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