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 tokyo s 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 man-made 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. he s 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 i m
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. we d like to extend special thanks to our literary members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturday s 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. it s very easy to get it from the app store, and there are directions in your programs. please try to download it. it ll help you today. before we get started, i have a couple of housekeeping notes. immediately following this presentation, brian curtis will be signing festival-purchased 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
it s been wonderful being with you again, lucinda. spent thank you so much, dan. you are amazing. you are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you, for coming. [applause] you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. first let s just start with your name and the title of the book. anne wilcox, with p. j. wilcox. the name of the book at west point west point 41: the class that went to war and shaped america. how did you come across this project is? my husband and i were working with the general on his memoir and he invited us to 73 union at west point. he was in the class of 1941, which was the last class to graduate before the u.s. entered world war ii. we went to the reunion and we start hearing stories of other officers that was classmates that were just astounding stories of closing the bulge in the bow of the bulge, and other historic incidents in world war ii they went
ceremonial band. and all of us for this year s lighting of the capitol christmas tree. merry christmas, everyone, and good night. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] washingtonext journal, from the washington examiner on the 2016 presidential race and potential campaigns by jeb bush and elizabeth moran, and we will talk to a boston college professor on her book about her role on public diplomacy in pop culture in shaping america s image abroad. washington journal is live with tweets, every and morning on c-span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. here is a look at some of the programs you will find christmas day on the c-span networks. holiday festivities start at 10:00 a.m. eastern with the lighting of the national christmas tree, followed by the white house christmas decorations with first lady michelle obama and the
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