Sir Max Hastings special event

Announcing a Special Author Event 

Distinguished military historian and journalist

Sir Max Hastings

will appear on

Thursday, November 14

at a noon luncheon at the

University Club of Chicago

He will be speaking about his new book Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War. Published on the eve of the centenary of the start of World War I, this new history seeks to explain the war's outbreak and what befell millions of men and women during its first months. It describes the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.

Max Hastings is the author of more than twenty books, most recently Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945. He spent his early career as a foreign correspondent for BBC TV and various newspapers, then as editor of Britain's Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph. He has received numerous awards for both his books and his journalism.

Click here to reach his website and view a brief video of the author introducing his new book. 

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