Keith Warren Lloyd will discuss ‘The War Correspondents’ at Books on the Bosque

BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE

Keith Warren Lloyd will discuss his book “The War Correspondents: The Incredible Stories of the Brave Men and Women Who Covered the Fight Against Hitler’s Germany” at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at Books on the Bosque.

It tells of the legendary reporters who accompanied Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen into battle. Among the correspondents were Ernie Pyle, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gellhorn and Bill Mauldin.

The book covers reportage starting with the Spanish Civil War.

Lloyd, a historian, also wrote these books — “Dark Nights, Deadly Waters: American PT boats at Guadalcanal,” “The Great Desert Escape: How the Flight of 25 German Prisoners of War Sparked One of the Largest Manhunts in American History” and “Avenging Pearl Harbor: The Saga of America’s Battleships in the Pacific War.”

Lloyd lives in Arizona.

Books on the Bosque is located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson will talk about his book “The Soulwork of Justice: Four Movements for Contemplative Action” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at Collected Works.

The author offers four key movements for anyone of any age who wants to step into the entwined lineage of justice and soul work.

Granberg-Michaelson, a Santa Fe resident, is general secretary emeritus of the Reformed Church in America. He has long been a respected global, ecumenical voice at the intersection of faith, justice and public life.

He served as a legislative assistant to former U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield and was director of Church and Society for the World Council of Churches.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe.

AN ORAL HISTORY

“The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making & Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb” is the title of a recent book by historian/journalist Garrett M. Graff.

Los Alamos was one of a handful of top-secret laboratories created during World War II under the umbrella of the Manhattan Project. Among the project’s other major lab and plant sites were in Chicago, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Hanford, Washington, and Berkeley, California.

Los Alamos was the lab assigned to build the bomb under director J. Robert Oppenheimer.

The book is described as “the panoramic narrative of how ordinary people grapple with extraordinary wartime risks, sacrifices and choices that will transform the course of history. Theorists and engineers dare to experiment with forces of terrifying power for the purpose of creating an atomic bomb, knowing each passing day costs soldiers’ lives — but fearing too the consequences of their creation.”

Among Graff’s other books are “UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government’s Search for Alien Life Here — and Out There” and “Watergate: A New History,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.

Graff is the former editor of POLITICO and a longtime WIRED and CNN contributor.