Events

The Lecture Series 2012

The Trustees of
THE SECOND WORLD WAR EXPERIENCE CENTRE
invite you to their

THIRTEENTH ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES AUTUMN 2012

Dr PETER CADDICK-ADAMS
Dr JONATHAN BOFF
DR JONATHAN FENNELL

in THE STATE APARTMENTS
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA
By kind permission of the Governor

Sponsored by Serco Defence, Science and Nuclear

PROGRAMME

PETER CADDICK-ADAMS
'Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 9^th October

JONATHAN BOFF
'The Battle of the Atlantic'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 23^rd October

JONATHAN FENNELL
'Disaster to Victory: The Eighth Army and the Path to El Alamein'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 6^th November

Lectures begin at 6.40 pm
Reception & Refreshments 6.00 pm & after the Lecture from 8.00 till 8.45pm

King Charles II founded the Royal Hospital Chelsea, built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1682, for soldiers after long service or crippled in war. The Trustees of the Second World War Experience Centre are grateful to Serco Defence, Science and Nuclear, the Governor of the Royal Hospital, and the Lecturers, for making these evenings possible.

Tickets £25 for each lecture.

Telephone enquiries (01937) 541 274
email: enquiries@war-experience.org

Numbers are strictly limited so please apply as soon as possible.

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Tuesday 9^th October
PETER CADDICK-ADAMS
Dr. Peter Caddick-Adams hails from Staffordshire and was educated at Shrewsbury School, Sandhurst and Wolverhampton University, where he gained First Class Honours in War Studies. Since May 1999 he has lectured at Cranfield University, Shrivenham (the UK Defence Academy), where he was awarded hid PhD. He has also lectured for Oxford and Birmingham Universities and to other audiences on military history, doctrine, terrorism, psychological and media operations. Acknowledged as one of the UK's most experienced battlefield guides, Peter has led over 200 visits to more than 50 battlefields around the world, covering all periods in history, from the Romans to the present day. He has written two books: The Fight For Iraq (2004), the official British Army pictorial account of the 2nd Gulf War, and By God They Can Fight! (1995), over 100 articles in the Oxford Companion to Military History (2001), and chapters in Lightning Strikes Twice (2001), One Hundred Years of Warfare (2001), A Reader's Guide to Military History (2001), The Battle of France and Flanders Sixty Years On (2001), Human Resource Management in the Armed Forces (2001) and The Encyclopaedia of Europe (2005). He has presented and contributed to many documentaries and news programmes on terrestrial and satellite TV. More recently, he appeared frequently on BBC News 24, Fox News and CNBC in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings and commentated (for Sky) on the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic and (for BBC News24) on Prince William's graduation from Sandhurst, both in 2006. Most weeks he appears on television or speaks on air about some aspect of current military affairs, terrorism and security issues.

Tuesday 23^rd October
JONATHAN BOFF
Dr Jonathan Boff is a Lecturer in War Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses on the two world wars and on naval history. He is convenor of the part-time MA in Second World War Studies and of a distance learning MA in Military History. His book on the British Army in the last days of the Great War, Winning and Losing on the Western Front, was recently published by Cambridge University Press.

Tuesday 6^th November
JONATHAN FENNELL
Dr Jonathan Fennell lectures in Defence Studies at Kings College London. Prior to this he was a management consultant in London and a Teaching Fellow in Defence Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Jonathan was awarded a Doctorate in History from the University of Oxford in 2008. His first book, Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign, was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. Jonathans research continues to focus on twentieth century British and Commonwealth history and on the political, socio-cultural, institutional and economic factors that affect the conduct of war and the experience of soldiers on the battlefield. His current research project, which has as its main objective the delivery of a second contracted book for Cambridge University Press, takes a holistic approach to the study of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War.