Author Luncheon with award-winning writer James Scott discussing his latest page-turner “Target Tokyo” Friday, Nov. 20
November 11, 2015
reporter James M. Scott will be discussing his latest book,Target Tokyo, a World War II history of the highest order. It’s an harrowing adventure story that also serves as a pivotal reexamination of one of America’s most daring military operations.Pat Conroy’s Review:
- $30 for the author talk and delicious three-course luncheon at Halls Chophouse
- $65 includes the luncheon plus a signed, hard cover copy of Target Tokyo
- All tickets include the champagne reception with the author immediately following the event at Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King Street.
(Or, tickets may be purchased online at BrownPaperTickets.com or through their 24/7 ticket hotline number 800.838.3006. For special requests call 843.303.1113.)
ABOUT THE BOOK
Based on scores of never-before-published records drawn from archives across four continents as well as new interviews with survivors, Target Tokyo is World War II history of 
the highest order: a harrowing adventure story that also serves as a pivotal reexamination of one of America’s most daring military operations.
In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors to plan an ambitious counter-strike against the heart of the Japanese Empire: Tokyo.
Four months later, on April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel the enemy’s factories, refineries, and dockyards and then escape to Free China.
For Roosevelt, the raid was a propaganda victory, a potent salve to heal a wounded nation. In Japan, outraged over the deaths of innocent civilians including children, military leaders launched an ill-fated attempt to seize Midway that would turn the tide of the war.
But it was the Chinese who suffered the worst, victims of a retaliatory campaign by the Japanese Army that claimed an estimated 250,000 lives and saw families drowned in wells, entire towns burned, and communities devastated by bacteriological warfare.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James M. Scott is an award-winning writer and former reporter and investigative journalist
with The Post and Courier. Scott is a recipient of the McClatchy Company President’s Award and was named the 2003 Journalist of the Year by the South Carolina Press Association.
Wofford College honored Scott as its 2005 Young Alumnus of the Year. From 2006-2007 he was a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard University. In addition toTarget Tokyo, Scott is the author of The Attack on the Liberty, which won the prestigious 2010 Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Excellence in Naval Literature, and The War Below, both with Simon & Schuster.
He is at work on a fourth book on the February 1945 Battle for Manila. Scott lives with his wife and two children in Mount Pleasant, S.C.
