The Last Assignment Audiobook By Erika Robuck cover art

The Last Assignment

A Novel of Dickey Chapelle

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection of titles.
Yours as long as you’re a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for $8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Last Assignment

By: Erika Robuck
Narrated by: Kristin Price
Try Standard free

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $20.96

Buy for $20.96

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, 1954.

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 the next opportunity. In the aftermath of an assignment gone 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, 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.

At a time when a woman's heroic spirit often gave way to homeland reality, Dickey blazed a trail for the revolutionary hearts inside us all.

©2025 Erika Robuck (P)2025 Tantor Media Historical Fiction Women's Fiction Heartfelt War Military
All stars
Most relevant
Well-written and researched. It’s made me want to dig up Dickey’s magazine articles and photos. Narrator had the perfect voice for this book.

Great story equally great narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Once again Erika Robuck has dazzled us with a real life heroine who lived many incredible lives. Her detailed research of the era along with unearthing the true but almost unbelievable story of Dickey’s life will keep you engaged.

Amazing Story of an Incredible Woman

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Dickie was arrogant and not a
Likable character. Very disappointed in this book. Would not recommend at all

Not a fan

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.