22nd September at the Royal Geographic Society
We will meet at the venue ahead of the lecture, and those attending will also be welcome to join an informal discussion afterwards at a nearby bar (details to follow). The event will be led by the Chair of our History Society Edmund Parker.
Further details: https://howtoacademy.com/events/max-hastings-the-end-of-wwii/ are described in the Event Materials:
Further details: https://howtoacademy.com/events/max-hastings-the-end-of-wwii/ are described in the Event Materials:
“Join one of our preeminent historians as he reveals the heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos of the final weeks of the Second World War.
In March 1945, British troops crossed the Rhine in Montgomery’s Operation Plunder, witnessed by Winston Churchill. The beginning of the end of the greatest and most terrible war in history had begun. Now Max Hastings returns to How To Academy to tell that story: with a cast of British, Americans and Germans distinguishing themselves through heroic deeds and the basest crimes.
In March 1945, British troops crossed the Rhine in Montgomery’s Operation Plunder, witnessed by Winston Churchill. The beginning of the end of the greatest and most terrible war in history had begun. Now Max Hastings returns to How To Academy to tell that story: with a cast of British, Americans and Germans distinguishing themselves through heroic deeds and the basest crimes.
