Synopses & Reviews
andquot;It was dawn before I fell asleep, and later in the morning I was only half-awake as I fed a fresh sheet of paper into the typewriter and began to copy the notes from the previous day out of my book. But I wasnand#39;t too weary to type the date line firmly as if Iand#39;d been writing date lines all my life:
from the front at iwo jima march 5--
Then I remembered and added two words.
under fire--
They looked great.andquot;
In 1965, Wisconsin native Georgette andquot;Dickeyandquot; Chapelle became the first female American war correspondent to be killed in action. Now, andquot;Dickey Chapelle Under Fireandquot; shares her remarkable story and offers readers the chance to experience Dickeyand#39;s wide-ranging photography, including several photographs taken during her final patrol in Vietnam.
Dickey Chapelle fought to be taken seriously as a war correspondent and broke down gender barriers for future generations of female journalists. She embedded herself with military units on front lines around the globe, including Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Dominican Republic, and Vietnam. Dickey sometimes risked her life to tell the story--after smuggling aid to refugees fleeing Hungary, she spent almost two months in a Hungarian prison. For twenty-five years, Dickeyand#39;s photographs graced the pages of andquot;National Geographic,andquot; the andquot;National Observer,andquot; andquot;Life,andquot; and others. Her tenacity, courage, and compassion shine through in her work, highlighting the human impact of war while telling the bigger story beyond the battlefield.
In andquot;Dickey Chapelle Under Fire,andquot; the American public can see the world through Dickeyand#39;s lens for the first time in almost fifty years, with a foreword by Jackie Spinner, former war correspondent for andquot;The Washington Post.andquot;
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Synopsis
Dickey Chapelle Under Fire tells the inspiring story of a trailblazing female war correspondent who photographed world conflicts for more than twenty years, before her death in Vietnam while covering combat with the U.S. Marines. The book draws from the vast collection of Dickey Chapelleandrsquo;s work housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society. It is the first collection of her photographs shared with American public in almost fifty years.
About the Author
John Garofolo is a former entertainment industry executive and veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A commander in the US Coast Guard Reserve, he has more than twenty-five years of active and reserve military service and taught at the Coast Guard Academy. Thanks to a grant from the Brico Fund through the Milwaukee Press Endowment, he has written a stage adaptation of Dickey Chapelleand#39;s life. John earned a PhD from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and lives with his wife and daughter in Southern California.