Death Zones Darling Spies Reporting
After reading "News Zero" by Beverly Deepe Keever, I knew her second book would be just as good, if not better. I wasn't disappointed. As a former reporter, my mundane beat nowhere near Keever's in any respect, I was immediately enthralled by her courageous leap from Columbia Journalism School in NYC into a battleground that was oceans and continents away from her parents' small farm in rural Nebraska. Her depth of "Death Zones" descriptions placed me there by her side as she sat squeezed between Marines in a helicopter loaded with TNT or on a cyclo pedaler as she skirted through Saigon's "hurly-burly traffic." Her more than 300 published articles were read in the pages of Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, newspapers worldwide, and even in the Congressional Record when Senator Mike Mansfield introduced her series of articles to "Mr. President." From coups and murders and assassinations, this determined and brave young woman was armed with only her trusty "Olivetti" and relenting that "it was always more important to wear lipstick than a pistol." Expertly documented with 35 pages of endnotes, readers are afforded an accurate account of what actually happened in one of the most controversial wars ever fought. The "Darling Spies" surprise ending was shocking--to the author and this reader. I highly recommend this book--especially to any and all movie-makers!
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Beverly Deepe Keever provides critical insights into the early days of the Vietnam War. Her analysis of the battle of Ap Bac is spot on. She gets right down to it by interviewing a lowly NVA private as well as ARVN Gen. Khanh. Reading her reports over the years shows she was not a "Saigon Warrior" but right in the midst of the action. Great historical value for the Vietnam scholar and a reminder of the role of the press during the war.
BalasHapusMichael Tholl
Captain, USA, Phoenix Program, Long Phu District, Ba Xuyen Province, Advisory Team 71, MACV, 1970-1971.
BalasHapusAfter reading "News Zero" by Beverly Deepe Keever, I knew her second book would be just as good, if not better. I wasn't disappointed. As a former reporter, my mundane beat nowhere near Keever's in any respect, I was immediately enthralled by her courageous leap from Columbia Journalism School in NYC into a battleground that was oceans and continents away from her parents' small farm in rural Nebraska. Her depth of "Death Zones" descriptions placed me there by her side as she sat squeezed between Marines in a helicopter loaded with TNT or on a cyclo pedaler as she skirted through Saigon's "hurly-burly traffic." Her more than 300 published articles were read in the pages of Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, newspapers worldwide, and even in the Congressional Record when Senator Mike Mansfield introduced her series of articles to "Mr. President." From coups and murders and assassinations, this determined and brave young woman was armed with only her trusty "Olivetti" and relenting that "it was always more important to wear lipstick than a pistol." Expertly documented with 35 pages of endnotes, readers are afforded an accurate account of what actually happened in one of the most controversial wars ever fought. The "Darling Spies" surprise ending was shocking--to the author and this reader. I highly recommend this book--especially to any and all movie-makers!
BalasHapus