Dancing with Colonels: A Young Woman's Adventures in Wartime Turkey (Paperback)

from Stacey42

This is a short collection of letters by Marjorie Havreberg written to her family as she travelled for work. She was in DC, working for Senator Norbeck from Jan to May 1936. Then she was a secretary for the War Department in Ankara Turkey from 1944 to 1946. She wrote mostly about her social life,...

from DeltaQueen50

Dancing With Colonels is a memoir of Marjorie Havreberg, a South Dakota women who with her husband travels to Washington D.C.. After her marriage breaks up, she applies to work at the American War Department in a secretarial position. Eventually she secures an overseas position and travels to Ank...

from sallylou61

This short book is primarily focused on letters sent by Marjorie (Marge) Havreberg to her family. The first section of letters are those she wrote while working as a secretary for Senator Peter Norbeck in Washington, DC, from January through April 1936. Marge, who grew up in Redfield, SD, had nev...

from Oregonreader

This is a collection of letters written during Havreberg's years working as a stenographer in Washington DC in 1936 and later in Ankara, Turkey from 1944 - 1946. She had left the small town in South Dakota where she grew up to work for Senator Peter Norbeck in his Washington office. After his dea...

from BevyAnn

This book was not what I was expecting at all. I was looking for a more in depth look at the war and details on the life during the war in Europe. It was a first hand look however not as in depth as I wanted.