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Dancing With Colonels Young Woman's Adventures Wartime Turkey
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“Paperback 2011, Minor Cover / edge wear, very solid book with clean reading pages.”
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Located in: Dexter, New York, United States
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Paperback 2011, Minor Cover / edge wear, very solid book with clean reading pages.”
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Signed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Era
- 2010s
- Personalized
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Unknown
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780984504138
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
South Dakota Historical Society Press
ISBN-10
0984504133
ISBN-13
9780984504138
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109483279
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dancing with Colonels : a Young Woman's Adventures in Wartime Turkey
Number of Pages
220 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Military / World War II, General, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-034295
Synopsis
Struck with the desire to see and do more with her life, a young South Dakota woman left the family home in Redfield to go to work for Senator Peter Norbeck in Washington, D.C. When the position ended, she quickly found she had grown accustomed to the bright lights of the capital and soon joined the War Department as a civilian secretary. With World War II in full swing, she found herself traversing the globe en route to Ankara, Turkey., A selection of personal letters that cover the author's career working for Senator Peter Norbeck in Washington, D.C., and then in the military in Turkey during World War II. Her writing is witty, charming, and full of astute observations, and Dancing with Colonels serves as an excellent window into life in the 1930s and 1940s, including the often under-illuminated social side of wartime Turkey., Struck with the desire to see and do more with her life, a young South Dakota woman left the family home in Redfield to go to work for Senator Peter Norbeck in Washington, D.C. When the position ended, she quickly found she had grown accustomed to the bright lights of the capital and soon joined the military as a civilian secretary. With World War II in full swing, she found herself traversing the globe en route to Ankara, Turkey. Once in Turkey, ostensibly a neutral country during the war, Marjorie Havreberg found herself swept up in the relatively glamorous world of military attachés, embassy soirees, and secret government correspondence. Her letters, sent home to her family in Redfield, South Dakota, cover the years in which she worked for Norbeck in Washington, D.C., and her career with the military. Her writing is witty, charming, and full of astute observations, and Dancing with Colonels serves as an excellent window into life in the 1930s and 1940s, including the often under-illuminated social side of wartime Turkey. With her small-town background, Havreberg provides the reader with a marvelously fresh look at her surroundings. An Introduction from Judy Barret Litoff, who edited the letters, places the correspondence in the larger context of society at the time. Litoff is professor of history at Bryant College in Rhode Island. She has written extensively and is an expert on letters from the World War II era. Sally Enstrom saved the letters, compiled this volume, and provided a brief memoir of her great aunt, highlighting Havreberg's personality and zest for life.
LC Classification Number
D811.5.H378 2011
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- h***1 (12)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseVery good price ! Shipping was very fast, packaging was very good, the packaging protected my purchase very well. For a cook book , perfect condition, in my eyes. (Was as described.) I even got a hand written thank you, it was icing on the cake. This seller is marvelous!
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