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

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ID: 626902
Title: First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent
Author: Lorissa Rinehart
Narrator: Kate Handford
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15:31:24
Language: English
Release date: 07-11-2023
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Literary, Military, Women

Summary:
The first authoritative 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. 'I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power.' 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 wouldnt 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 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. Chapelle overcame discrimination both on the battlefield and at home, with much of her work ultimately buried from the public eyeuntil now. In First to the Front, Lorissa Rinehart uncovers the incredible life and unparalleled achievements of this true pioneer, and the mark she would make on history. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martins Press.

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