Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a daring French photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, an American high-society intellectual, are in Vietnam with completely different life experiences but with a common goal: to document the most important story of the decade. At a time when women were deemed unfit to be foreign correspondents, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate were forging their own paths in the war, arriving without jobs, defying the rules imposed on them by the military, ignoring the condescension and bitterness of their male colleagues, and finding new ways to explain the war through the people who experienced it. In the book "You Don't Belong Here," Elizabeth Becker draws on the work and lives of these women to illuminate the Vietnam War from the American deployment in 1965, through the Tet Offensive, the expansion into Cambodia, the American defeat, and its aftermath. She arrives at the war's final years, writing as a historian and witness to what these women achieved. An unforgettable story emerges of three journalists who claimed their place in a male-dominated society, often at great personal cost, forever changing the art of war reporting for generations to come. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and insightful observations, "You Don't Belong Here" fills a gap in the history of women and war.
