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From: How To Academy To: j <jeevacation@gmatl.com> Subject: Hitler's Last Gamble. Antony Beevor talks about his latest major work Ardennes 1944. Hitler's Last Gamble Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:10:55 +0000 Lo: Ardennes 1944. Hitler's Last Gamble EFTA00630838 how to: Ardennes 1944. Hitler's Last Gamble 21st May 2015 6:45pm-8.00 pm Emmanuel Centre 9-23 Marsham Street London SW1P 3DW TICKETS: £35 Premium (inc. book RRP £25.00) £25 Standard The Western Counterpart to Stalingrad This major talk by Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin, D-Day and The Second World War, timed to coincide with the launch of his new book Ardennes 1944, focuses on Hitler's ill- fated final stand when on 16th December 1944, Hitler launched his last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgium/German border. W2i Although Hitler s generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the east. The Ardennes offensive, with more than a million men involved, became the greatest battle of the war in western Europe. EFTA00630839 In January 1945, when the Red Army launched its onslaught towards Berlin, the once-feared German war machine was revealed to be broken beyond repair. The Ardennes was the battle which finally broke the Wehrmacht. Antony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in Germany. He is the author of Crete - The Battle and the Resistance, which won a Runciman Prize; Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (written with his wife Artemis Cooper); Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature; Berlin - The Downfall, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award; The Battle for Spain; The Mystery of Olga Chekhova and, D-Day, which received the RUSI Westminster Medal. His most recent book The Second World War was a no:1 bestseller in Britain and four other countries, and has already been translated into 23 different languages around the world. His books have appeared in thirty languages and sold more than six million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent and Bath and is visiting professor of Birkbeck College and the University of Kent. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. EFTA00630840 a Copyright O 2015 How To Academy. All tights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in our website and indicated you wished to receive news about courses and offers. Our mailing address is: How To Academy 11 Aldridge Road Villas London. England W11 1BL United Kingdom Add us to your address book how to: unsubscribe I update subscription preferences EFTA00630841