Pensacola Launches Pearl Harbor Survivors Book Tour
Pensacola, FL – On Thursday, May 8, 2014, master photographers Billie and Robert Nicholson’s new book, Pearl Harbor Honor Flight: One Last Goodbye, will go on the shelves for the first time in Pensacola bookstores.
Kicking off a four-month book tour for this heartwarming photo documentary, also on May 8, the authors will be hosted by April Stokes, owner of Turn the Page Books at a premiere book launch reception and book signing at her bookstore located at 9105 Gulf Beach Hwy in Pensacola. The reception begins at 5:30 pm with a presentation by the authors at 6:30 pm.
The 80-page premium color first edition book tells the touching story of a community coming together to make an elderly veteran’s dream come true to return to Pearl Harbor and say “one last goodbye” to his friends and comrades who were with him that day so long ago on December 7, 1941.
Pearl Harbor Honor Flight: One Last Goodbye
Filled with photos by the Nicholsons of the Pearl Harbor survivors recent return to Pearl Harbor and brilliantly interspersed with historic pictures and eyewitness accounts of the attack, the book pays homage to these military veterans of the Greatest Generation for their extraordinary courage and personal sacrifice. Says author Robert Nicholson, “the book was designed as a keepsake case bound hardcover book and lets the reader visually experience the enduring triumph of the human spirit that made our country great.”
Author Billie Nicholson calls Stokes’ bookstore “just perfect for the launch of a historic event book of this kind with a ‘Little Shop Around the Corner’ feeling of nostalgia, a real bookstore of the time”.
Several of the remaining Pearl Harbor survivors who are now in their 90’s still live in the Pensacola area and are slated to attend the reception and book signing on May 8. For those lucky enough to live in the Pensacola area, don’t miss this opportunity to be a part of a piece of history.
Proceeds from all book sales of Pearl Harbor Honor Flight: One Last Goodbye go to benefit the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.