Events

The Lecture Series 2010

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

ELEVENTH ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES AUTUMN 2010

BEN MACINTYRE
GARY SHEFFIELD
KAROL COLONNA-CZOSNOWSKI
CHARLES GLASS

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

Sponsored by Serco Defence, Science and Nuclear

PROGRAMME

BEN MACINTYRE
'Operation Mincemeat : The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Thursday 30^st September

GARY SHEFFIELD
'The British Soldier in the Second World War: the Experience of Combat'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Monday 18^th October

KAROL COLONNA-CZOSNOWSKI
'Beyond the Taiga: Memoirs of a Survivor'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 2^nd October

CHARLES GLASS
'Americans in Paris, Life and Death under Nazi Occupation, 1940 -1944'
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Thursday 3^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 £30 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.

Thursday 30^st September
BEN MACINTYRE
Ben Macintyre, a weekly columnist in The Times since 1998, on history, espionage, art, politics and foreign affairs, before taking up his current post as Writer at Large and Associate Editor on the newspaper, Ben MacIntyre was the editor of The Times Weekend Review. He joined the newspaper in 1992 as New York Correspondent, becoming Paris Bureau Chief and then US Editor, based in Washington, and returning to the UK in 2002 as parliamentary sketch-writer. He is the author of seven historical works including Agent Zigzag, which was four weeks in The Sunday Times bestseller list top ten and Operation Mincemeat, published this year.

Monday 18^th October
GARY SHEFFIELD
Gary Sheffield is Professor of War Studies at the University of Birmingham, having been appointed to this newly-established Chair in 2006. Previously, he was Professor of Modern History at King's College London . He was also a lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course at the UK's Joint Services Command and Staff College . He has researched and published on leadership, command and generalship and on perceptions of the First World War in modern British media and popular culture.He is currently researching a a study of the British and Commonwealth soldier in the Second World War, provisionally entitled Citizen Army.

Tuesday 2^nd November
KAROL COLONNA-CZOSNOWSKI
From an ancient Polish landowning family, Karol Colonna- Czosnowski was 18 when war broke out in 1939. After the Russian army invaded eastern Poland, he was arrested by the Soviet authorities for attempting to cross the border. He was imprisoned in forced labour camps of the northern Taiga before being recruited into the Polish Army in the USSR to fight the German invaders. Subsequently he was able to leave Russia and join Allied forces in the Middle East and, as a tank commander, in Italy . Unable to return to Poland after the war, and after a struggle in England to survive without contacts and money, he settled successfully there and now lives with his horses on his own stud farm in Surrey.

Thursday 18^th November
CHARLES GLASS
Charles Glass , the award-winning American author and broadcaster, was ABC News' chief Middle East correspondent from 1983-93. His work has appeared worldwide in newspapers and magazines, and on television networks. In 1987, as described subsequently in his Tribes with Flags , he was held captive for 62 days in Lebanon by Shi'a militants; his escape, almost the only known one by a Western hostage in that country, was headline news. His other books include The Northern Front, on the beginning of the American war in Iraq (2006). Most recently he has told the story of the American citizens who remained in Paris when the Germans occupied the city in 1940.