Brisbane Writers Festival at UQ: Public Lecture with Antony Beevor

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 04 September 2015 - Friday, 04 September 2015

Time:

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Room:

Auditorium

UQ Location:

Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.hass.uq.edu.au/event/antony-beevor

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Full Description:: The University of Queensland together with the Brisbane Writers Festival presents a Public Lecture: In Conversation with Antony Beevor.

Antony is a historian and a bestselling author of several popular histories on the Second World War and the 20th century in general.

Antony Beevor’s latest book is Ardennes 1944 – Hitler’s Last Gamble. He is the author of Crete – The Battle and the Resistance, (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad, (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize for Literature), Berlin – The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), and D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, (Prix Henry Malherbe and the Royal United Services Institute Westminster Medal). His next work The Second World War was another No. 1 international bestseller. His books have appeared in more than thirty languages and have sold more than six million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent, Bath, East Anglia and York. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent.

In this public lecture, Antony will speak with A/Professor Martin Crotty from UQ's School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry.

This is a free event as part of the Brisbane Writers Festival and all are welcome. Registration required