The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle

Manhattan, 1954. In the aftermath of an assignment gone wrong, a flame is lit deep inside Georgette ＂Dickey＂ Chapelle -- 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 soldiers from frozen wastelands to raging seas to luscious jungles, revealing one woman’s extraordinary courage in the face of discrimination and danger. And 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.