YOU DON'T BELONG HERE

 

Title: YOU DON'T BELONG HERE

Author: Elizabeth Becker

Genre: nonfiction

Summary: Excerpts from the inside cover: The story of three women who arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, they 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.

The author 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. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times.

Rating: Very good
Why I Like It: Easy to read and understand. Provided a lot of good back ground information. At that time I was just beginning to be aware of what was going on in our government and the world. Reading about these women and more about what really went on in Vietnam was very interesting.

Name: Kathy