Death Zones And Darling Spies: Seven Years Of Vietnam War Reporting (studies In War, Society, And The Militar)
by Beverly Deepe Keever /
2013 / English / PDF
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In 1961, equipped with a master’s degree from famed Columbia
Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press
bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off
on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South
Vietnam, she was still there seven years later, having then
earned the distinction of being the longest-serving American
correspondent covering the Vietnam War and garnering a Pulitzer
Prize nomination.
In 1961, equipped with a master’s degree from famed Columbia
Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press
bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off
on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South
Vietnam, she was still there seven years later, having then
earned the distinction of being the longest-serving American
correspondent covering the Vietnam War and garnering a Pulitzer
Prize nomination.
In
InDeath Zones and Darling Spies
Death Zones and Darling Spies, Beverly Deepe Keever
describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find
herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of
the nation’s bloodiest and bitterest wars. She arrived in Saigon
as Vietnam’s war entered a new phase and American helicopter
units and provincial advisers were unpacking. She tells of
traveling from her Saigon apartment to jungles where Wild
West–styled forts first dotted Vietnam’s borders and where, seven
years later, they fell like dominoes from communist-led attacks.
In 1965 she braved elephant grass with American combat units
armed with unparalleled technology to observe their valor—and
their inability to distinguish friendly farmers from
hide-and-seek guerrillas.
, Beverly Deepe Keever
describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find
herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of
the nation’s bloodiest and bitterest wars. She arrived in Saigon
as Vietnam’s war entered a new phase and American helicopter
units and provincial advisers were unpacking. She tells of
traveling from her Saigon apartment to jungles where Wild
West–styled forts first dotted Vietnam’s borders and where, seven
years later, they fell like dominoes from communist-led attacks.
In 1965 she braved elephant grass with American combat units
armed with unparalleled technology to observe their valor—and
their inability to distinguish friendly farmers from
hide-and-seek guerrillas.
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. These memoirs, at once personal and panoramic, chronicle the
horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and
prestige.
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. These memoirs, at once personal and panoramic, chronicle the
horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and
prestige.