Kate Webb, an Australian reporter, was captured by the Vietcong only to continue her fearless reporting after her release. Using the stories of Catherine, Frankie and Kate, Elizabeth Becker traces the war in Vietnam from the Tet Offensive to the revolution in Cambodia to the American defeat and aftermath.
Over the course of the Vietnam War they challenged the rules and expectations imposed on them, all in an effort to get the story right.
Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Kate Webb were the first female frontline journalists in the history of US war reporting. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, You Don’t Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war.About the Book One spent 23 days in captivity. What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times. In You Don’t Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker uses these women’s work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, the expansion into Cambodia, and the American defeat and its aftermath. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war
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