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The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle

Erika Robuck

From bestselling author Erika Robuck comes the perilous and awe-inspiring true story of award-winning photojournalist Dickey Chapelle as she risks everything to show the American people the price of war through the lens of her camera.

Manhattan, 1954.

Since her arrest for disobeying orders and going ashore at Iwo Jima almost a decade earlier, combat correspondent Georgette "Dickey" Chapelle has been unmoored. Her military accreditation revoked, her marriage failing, and her savings dwindling, Dickey jumps at the next opportunity. In the aftermath of a an assignment gone wrong, a flame is lit deep inside Dickey-- to survive in order to be the world's witness to war from the front lines.

Never content to report on battles unless her own boots are on the ground, Dickey and her camera journey with American and international soldiers from frozen wastelands to raging seas to luscious jungles, revealing one woman's extraordinary courage and tenacity in the face of discrimination and danger. And it's along the way, in Dickey's desire to save the world, she realizes she might also be saving herself.

At a time when a woman's heroic spirit often gave way to homeland reality, Dickey blazed a trail for the revolutionary hearts inside us all.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
  • Publish Date: Aug 19th, 2025
  • Pages: 448
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.25in - 6.25in - 1.50in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9781464238970
  • Categories: Historical - GeneralWomen

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About the Author

Robuck, Erika: -

Erika Robuck is the national bestselling author of historical fiction including The Last Twelve Miles and The Invisible Woman. In 2024 she was named a Maryland Writer's Association Notable Writer and won the Anne Arundel County Arts Council Literary Award. A photography enthusiast, she resides in Annapolis with her husband and three sons.

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