Dancing With Colonels: A Young Woman's Adventures in Wartime Turkey
Marjorie Havreberg
Dancing with Colonels is a collection of letters written by the author when she was a young woman working for a Senator's aid in 1936, and for the War Dept. in Ankara, Turkey, 1944 - 1946 to her family in South Dakota.
The letters are so vibrant that they hum with excitement as she gets her first taste of the wider world - which seemed so much larger then. Ankara seems to have been an endless round of glittering, glamorous parties with people from around the globe, many of whom were international VIPs. She certainly did dance with colonels, and with countless others as well!
A sense of humor and a great sense of fun shine through her letters.
I enjoyed this book so much. It does make me regret that we've lost the art of letter-writing. I include myself in that collective we. It also makes me, in some ways, long for a time when the world was larger and seemed more full of wonder.
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