Bill Lascher on A Danger Shared at Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, Seattle, June 26

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Bill Lascher on A Danger Shared: the photography of Melville Jacoby (available from Blacksmith Books) at Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, Seattle, June 26 at at 7:30 p.m.

Explore never-before-published photographs of World War II-era China, Vietnam, and beyond captured by American foreign correspondent Melville Jacoby. Author Bill Lascher will discuss his new book, A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War, which features hundreds of previously-unseen images Jacoby captured as he bore witness to an oft-neglected, transformative, and cataclysmic conflict that engulfed Asia after China and Japan went to war. Lascher will also share one-of-a-kind documents and artifacts from Jacoby’s five years as an exchange student in Guangzhou, as a freelance reporter in Shanghai, Chungking and Hanoi, and, finally, as the Manila-based “Far East” bureau chief for Time Inc. who witnessed the first dramatic months of war between Japan and the U.S. The event will also revisit Jacoby’s daring escape from the Philippines capital with his new wife and fellow journalist, Annalee Jacoby, which began minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve, 1941 as the pair leapt from a burning Manila waterfront to begin the adventure described in Lascher’s critically-acclaimed 2016 book, Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across The Pacific.

Jacoby’s photographs — which Lascher curated, digitized, and contextualized for A Danger Shared — and Lascher’s accompanying writing together connect present-day readers with the pivotal yet often overlooked subject of the war’s devastating impact on Asia as well as the broader ramifications of the conflict between China and Japan still felt today.

Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 3:30 AM – 4:30 AM (your local time)

Long Bros Books – 400 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, Washington, US, 98104

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