The Last Assignment

A Novel of Dickey Chapelle

Erika Robuck

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Sourcebooks Landmark
19 August 2025

Historical fiction

From bestselling author Erika Robuck comes the perilous and awe-inspiring true story of award-winning photojournalist Dickey Chapelle as she risks everything to show the American people the price of war through the lens of her camera.

Manhattan, 1956.

Since her arrest for disobeying orders and going ashore at Iwo Jima almost a decade earlier, combat correspondent Georgette ""Dickey"" Chapelle has been unmoored. Her military accreditation revoked, her marriage failing, and her savings dwindling, Dickey jumps at an opportunity to work with an international refugee association--one with intelligence ties. In the aftermath of a refugee rescue that goes wrong, a flame is lit deep inside Dickey-- to survive in order to be the world's witness to war from the front lines.

Never content to report on battles unless her own boots are on the ground, Dickey and her camera journey with American and international soldiers from frozen wastelands, to raging seas, to luscious jungles, covering the plight of those suffering from humanity's endless cycle of violence. Told in an alternating prose and epistolary format, The Last Assignment takes readers along on Dickey's missions to the Hungarian Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, and the earliest days of the war in Vietnam, revealing one woman's extraordinary courage and tenacity in the face of discrimination and danger.

And it's along the way, in Dickey's desire to save the world, she realizes she might also be saving herself.

By: Erika Robuck
Imprint: Sourcebooks Landmark
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781464238970
ISBN 10: 1464238979
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 19 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Erika Robuck is the national bestselling author of historical fiction including The Last Twelve Miles and The Invisible Woman. In 2024 she was named a Maryland Writer's Association Notable Writer and won the Anne Arundel County Arts Council Literary Award. A photography enthusiast, she resides in Annapolis with her husband and three sons.