Events

The Lecture Series 2011

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

TWELFTH ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES AUTUMN 2011

MAX EGREMONT
DENNIS BUTTS
LLOYD CLARK

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

Sponsored by Serco Defence, Science and Nuclear

PROGRAMME

MAX EGREMONT
'Winter Storms : The Last Years of East Prussia'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 4^th October

DENNIS BUTTS
'Seeking an Oasis: The Poetry of the Second World War - with readings'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 1^st November

LLOYD CLARK
'The Battle of Kursk 1943: The Death of Blitzkrieg'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 15^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 (0113) 258 4993
email: enquiries@war-experience.org

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

Tuesday 4^st October
MAX EGREMONT
In addition to four novels, Lord Egremont has written acclaimed biographies of Arthur Balfour, Major-General Sir Edward Spears and Siegfried Sassoon. His most recent book is Forgotten Land : Journeys among the Ghosts of East Prussia (June 2011). His Lecture on this Eastern European storm centre covers its fate during the Second World War, finally, after a devastating struggle, being carved up between Poland and the USSR - Stalin's "Terrible Revenge"

Monday 18^th October
DENNIS BUTTS
Dennis Butts served in the RAF on National Service for two years before reading English at St.Catherine's College Oxford. In the course of his teaching career he lectured, until his retirement, at Reading University. Long a keen student of World War II literature, he was a member of the Oasis Trust which arose out of the movement among soldiers during the 1939-45 war to publish British poems from the front. He has written on the subject, notably as the editor of war poetry collections. The poems selected here include the light and ironical as well as the poignant and powerful. The poems in this lecture will be read by the two distinguished actors, ELEANOR BRON and JONATHAN CECIL.

Tuesday 2^nd November
LLOYD CLARK
LLoyd Clark is a senior academic in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and a professional Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. His books include the highly praised Anzio - The friction of War - Italy and the Battle for Rome 1944; Arnhem - Jumping the Rhine 1944 and 45.; and most recently Kursk,the Greatest Tank Battle ; Eastern Front 1943. A member of the British Commission for Military History and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is a regular contributor to BBC, ITV and CNN News programmes. He is currently writing a book on the German 1944 Ardennes offensive.