The Last Assignment SIGNED

Erika Robuck

Paperback | 448 pages | Publication Date: August 19, 2025

Special Note: For the first 50 pre-orders, the publisher will provide a custom reporter’s notebook, a bookmark, and a sticker! Erika Robuck will be at Bethany Beach Books for an author signing event on Wednesday, August 20th so she will be hand signing all pre-orders! Pre-orders will ship AFTER they are signed!

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

Fall, 1956. Award-winning but often-maligned combat photojournalist Georgette “Dickey” Chapelle works press for the International Rescue Committee (IRC)—started by Albert Einstein during the Second World War—to bring the plight of the world’s war refugees to the American people for their support. Still grieving the death of her mother, just two years after the death of her father, and in the midst of a prolonged and painful separation from her philandering husband, Dickey identifies deeply with displaced people—particularly women, children, and orphans—and longs to help them however she can. 

After a refugee rescue goes wrong, a flame is lit deep inside her - to be on the front lines showing the world what war really means. Her journey will take her all over the world, and in the most perilous of dangers, Dickey will realize that in trying to galvanize the American people to save the oppressed peoples of the world, she is saving herself.