“One Book One Nebraska: Death Zones & Darling Spies” is Spalding Library’s book club’s choice for the month of November.
In this book, Beverly Deepe Keever describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway around the world as a war correspondent in Vietnam, trying to make sense of one of the nation’s bloodiest and bitterest wars. She arrived in Saigon in 1961 as Vietnam’s war entered a new phase and American helicopter units and provincial advisers were unpacking.
Keever’s trove of tissue-thin memos to editors, along with published and unpublished dispatches for New York and London media, provide the reader with you-are-there descriptions of Buddhist demonstrations and turning-point coups as well as phony ones. Two Vietnamese interpreters, self-described as “darling spies,” helped her decode Vietnam’s shadow world and subterranean war.
Stop by the library and pick up your copy of this book!!
