Burns, once nostalgically called 'that time, that place, of war.' She writes beautifully of the heartache the women suffer, their struggles to be taken seriously, the guffaws, the catcalls, the daily small humiliations that amounted to the French photographer's fierce indictment: You don't belong here."- Foreign Policy, " You Don't Belong Here provides a fresh perspective not just on how the Second Indochina War was reported, but also on how it can be narrated through the lives of those who witnessed it. Becker's book does an excellent job of bringing back what my colleague in Bosnia, the New York Times reporter John F. A deft, richly illuminating perspective on the Vietnam War." - Kirkus Reviews, "Compelling.
"An incisive history of the Vietnam War via the groundbreaking accomplishments of three remarkable women journalists. 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. 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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