FEMALE JOURNALISTS BROKE BARRIERS ON WAR’S FRONT LINES
You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
By Elizabeth Becker PublicAffairs, 2021
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Popular histories of Vietnam War journalism tend to focus on the male war correspondents. While many newsmen on the front lines have been praised to the skies, their female colleagues remain overlooked. In her informative and well-written book, , journalist and historian Elizabeth Becker notes that not a single published work by a female war correspondent appeared on a recommended reading list accompanying Ken Burns’ acclaimed 2017 PBS documentary, .
