Friends of the University of Adelaide Library

Lunchtime series

1940 Britain: from phoney war, to finest hour, to where?

Trevor Wilson, Emeritus Professor of History, was appointed an Honorary Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2007 for his services to education through teaching, writing and historical research in the area of military history of Word War I.

His revolutionary work The Myriad Faces of War (1986) examined in a new way, from a vast range of sources, not only the battle front but the impact of World War I on all aspects of the British nation. Professor Wilson's subsequent books, co-authored with Professor Robin Prior, include The Somme (2005), Passchendaele (1996), The First World War (1999), and Command on the Western Front 1914-1918 (1992).

In further collaboration with Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson is now focusing his research on the Second World War and will be sharing his always stimulating thinking with a fresh examination of the situation in 1940.

Bookings by Tuesday 11 September to:
Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au
Telephone: 8303 4064

Admission is free and open to the public.

Seating is limited.

Paul Wilkins
Deputy University Librarian
Barr Smith Library