The 2019 Cambridge Liberation Literature Lecture will be given on Thursday, 21 November, 5-6 pm, by James Holland, well-known broadcaster and author of military books including Normandy ’44 – D-Day and the Battle for France, London : Bantam Press, 2019, C215.c.4712.

The lecture, entitled “Normandy ’44”, will be looking at the destructive toll of war on Normandy and France, why the Allies harnessed air power in the way they did, the consequences for France and the role of the Resistance in paving the way for Allied success.

Venue: Gillespie Centre, Clare College. There will be an exhibition of books of the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation collection relative to the Normandy landing, and a glass of wine, after the lecture in Cambridge University Library.

The event is fully booked, but you can add your name to the waiting list by emailing fh322@cam.ac.uk. Some spaces may be available on the night of the event, but we cannot guarantee that you will be allowed in.

Marc Elmer, Album-souvenir du débarquement. 2, la Bataille de Normandie, Paris; Bayeux: Éditions de l’entente nouvelle, 1945? Liberation.c.1416

Irène Fabry-Tehranchi