The Last Assignment

A Novel of Dickey Chapelle

By: Erika Robuck

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Paperback | 28 October 2025

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

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, 1956.

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 an opportunity to work with an international refugee association-one with intelligence ties. In the aftermath of a refugee rescue that goes 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, covering the plight of those suffering from humanity's endless cycle of violence. Told in an alternating prose and epistolary format, The Last Assignment takes readers along on Dickey's missions to the Hungarian Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, and the earliest days of the war in Vietnam, 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.

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