Details, but i put it in the book because i felt it had to be understood. Many people reported the abuse being snatched out of the arms of mothers into this inferno wind. O tokyos canal, so people who got out of the asphalt and out of the shelters wind with their families into the canals to escape from the fire. But the canals were broiling in tens of thousands in the canal. The winds were all but flipping them over. Thousands of feet still above, the crews had to put on their oxygen masks to escape the stench of burning flesh. So, as lemay, who was in charge of that, curtis lemay tells it in his book, it was the greatest manmade killing in the history of the world. Book tvs live coverage of the savanna book festival now continues. Youom will hear from author bryn curtis. Hes talking about his vote that looks at the only rose bowl to ever take place outside of pasadena, california. This is live coverage on booktv. Good morning, book lovers. My name is nancy lieb and im delighted to wel
The Sheehan Family foundation and mark and pat suen. Many thanks to jack and mary romanos, our sponsors for this gloriouss venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. Wed like to extend special thanks to our literary members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our venue of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have a savannah book festival app for your phonene available this yea. Its very easy to get it from the app store, and there are directions in your programs. Please try to download it. Itll help you today. Before we get started, i have a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, brian curtis will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his books in Telfair Square right across the way. If you are planning to stay for the next author presentation, pleasese move forward to seats n the front so that we can accurately count how many i spas are availa
Delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savannah book festival, presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, the family foundation, and mark and pat. Many thanks to jack and mary romano, our sponsors for this glorious venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to our literary members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our venue, of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have a savannah book festival app for your phone available this year. Its very easy to get it from the app store and there are directions in your programs. Please try to download it. It will help you today. Before we get started i had a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, brian curtis will be signing festival purchase copies of his books right across the way. If you are planning to stay for the next author presentation, please
Is behind the scenes pictures and videos. booktv is our handle. We kick off the savanna book festival with retired air force Major General Robert Latiff on the future of technology and war. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. Good morning. My name is nancy leads. Im delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savanna book festival presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, that she and family, many thanks to jack and mary, the glorious venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. And members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturdays events possible. 90 of revenues come from donors just like you. And and it would be very helpful today. Following this presentation, Robert Latiff will sign festival purchased across the way. And as it empties so ushers can count available seats. Please take a moment to turn off your cell phone. And we ask you to not use flash photography. During the questionandanswer portions. I will call on you and one of the ushers will b
Youre watching live in depth on booktv. December 7, 194,a day of infamiliary. Even as japanese diplomats were con ferring on peace measures, japanese plains were swooping down on pearl harbor. They dropped their death on the air base, civil homes and schools. A hundred japanese planes and midget sub marines took part. The arizona was completely destroyed and four others severely damaged. Three other battleships and three cruisers suffered damage. Nearly 200 planes were destroyed and that sunday morning the Pacific Fleet appeared to be completely immobilized by this sneak attack. Nearly 3,000 casualties added to the catastrophe. Its been 75 years since over 2400 american sailors and soldiers were killed in the japanese attack on pearl harbor, december 7, 1941. Starting now on booktv, on cspan2, a threehour discussion of that day, what led up to it and its aftermath. We have three authors joining us, eri hotta, steve twomey, and craig nelson, each of you in your book about pearl harbor a