Fireside Chat with Roger Moorhouse
Author of Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War
Monday 27th October at 18.30 | The Drawing Room and Zoom | £15.00 per person*
*Includes one glass Prosecco
*£10.00 for those joining via Zoom
A former collaborator with the acclaimed Professor Norman Davies, Roger Moorhouse is today one of our most distinguished military historians. In seeking added insight into the path the Second World War took, he has turned his attention to Hitler’s U-Boat fleet, which Churchill admitted “really frightened” him. The result is “Wolfpack, Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War”.
For this Fireside chat join Roger in the Drawing Room for an hour of conversation to consider the U-Boats’ bitter harvest among Allied shipping: nearly 3,000, weighting over 14 million tonnes, and representing nearly 70% of Allied shipping losses in all theatres of the war. Then to continue the dialogue share the supper table with Roger in the Coffee Room for a discussion that can be both more in-depth and much broader.
The U-Boats are an integral part of the traditional narrative of the Battle of the Atlantic. A story of technological brilliance, dramatic sinkings, life and death, and – of course – the sinister, unseen threat of the U-Boats themselves. An evening with Roger Moorhouse will further your understanding of this, specifically, and World War Two, in general. So a fireside seat and perhaps a place at the supper table would well worth reserving.
