The Bitter Road to Freedom by William I. Hitchcock

Privately, the British were delighted that the Russians, after Stalingrad, had got the upper hand and they were slowly grinding their way westward. The Russians were slaughtering the Germans. This explains the North Africa landings, and the Italian campaign – all of that was the British insisting they should go through a softer approach. She is the Executive Director of the North American Conference of British Studies.The British did not want to invade Germany from France they thought it would be too difficult. Her most recent book, Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist, a history of Britain’s second female cabinet minister, was awarded the 2017 Stansky award for best book published in the field of modern British history. She is particularly interested in the ways in which politics both influences and is shaped by cultural and social life, and in the role of the mass media in modern society. Professor Beers’s research focuses on modern Britain. Laura Beers is Professor of History at American University. He is now writing “FDR and the Dictators: Fascism, Democracy and the Awakening of America,” which explores reactions in the United States to the rise of fascism in Europe from the 1920s to 1941.ĭr. His most recent book is The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018), which was a New York Times bestseller. His book, The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (Free Press, 2008) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a winner of the George Louis Beer Prize, and a Financial Times bestseller in the UK.

His work and teaching focus on the global history of the 20th Century, in particular the era of the two world wars and the Cold War. Corcoran Professor of History at the University of Virginia. This event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. For those attending in person, masks are required. NOTE: This is an IN-PERSON event at the National Churchill Leadership Center at George Washington University. Laura Beers to mark the 80th anniversary of the signing of the Atlantic Charter. National Churchill Leadership Center Program Director Justin Reash is joined by Dr.

SeptemThe NCLC opens its fall programming by marking the 80th anniversary of the Atlantic Charter.

The Bitter Road to Freedom by William I. Hitchcock