vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. in today s presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spied during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize that maybe he can wake up each morning, go to his desk, and look forward to the prospect of spending a day making this story come alive on the page. but those moments are just preludes to the energizing moment when he decides, i love this story, this is a book i have to write. this afternoon, what i would like to tell you is how i came to write the last good night, a true story about a glamorous american
brigade: an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. in today s presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spy during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] howard: for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize that maybe he can wake up each morning, go to his desk, and look forward to the prospect of spending a day making this story come alive on the page. but those moments are just preludes to the energizing moment when he decides, i love this story, this is a book i have to write. this afternoon, what i would like to tell you is how i came to write the last good night, a true s
conference at the world war ii museum in new orleans. it is about 45 minutes. our next speaker is howard blum, who brought the story you are about to hear to our local audience earlier this year while he was on his book tour. we thought so much of it and of howard that we wanted to bring him back for you all here today. one of his previous books that i m sure you all know of is the brigade: an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. in today s presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spied during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] howard blum: for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he be
of them. in today s presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spied during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] howard: for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize that maybe he can wake up each morning, go to his desk, and look forward to the prospect of spending a day making this story come alive on the page. but those moments are just preludes to the energizing moment when he decides, i love this story, this is a book i have to write. this afternoon, what i would like to tell you is how i came to write the last good night, a true story about a glamorous american debutante who became nothing less than a fine spy who helped the allies win the war. my thoughts first began to crystalli