AMERICA’S CONFLICTS
WWII SYMPOSIUM 2017
A Closer Look at WWII and the Things You Didn’t Know
Community Center Auditorium
The America’s Conflicts lecture series will present a three-day symposium on World War II in April 2017. This symposium will be limited to the European
Theater of War and focus on “Things You Didn’t Know.” Plans are in the works to present a second symposium in 2018 on the WWII Pacific Theater.
The line-up of speakers is unbelievable. Historians from all over the world will be here in Boca Grande to share their knowledge.
If you purchase Reserved Seating or Sponsorships, you will help underwrite the cost of this program. Sponsors will enjoy reserved seating in the
auditorium and an invitation to a very special reception with several of the speakers. Lynne Olson, Andrew Roberts, Josiah Bunting and Neill Lochery
will present a 45-minute conversation on “Things You Didn’t Know About WWII” at the Sponsor cocktail party at the Boca Bay Beach Club. In addition
to being listed in the program as a Sponsor, you will also receive a charitable gift letter for tax purposes.
SPONSORSHIP $500 per person (6 lectures, 2 shows, & cocktail party)
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:
Jim Agger, Kathy & Dennis Berry, Claire & John Bissell,
EARLY BIRD PACKAGE pricing available from September 1 to December 31, 2016
Pat Chapman, Pattie & John Cleghorn, Paul Eddy, Barbara
GENERAL ADMISSION $300 (6 lectures + 2 shows)
& Jerry Edgerton, Dod Fraser, Dick Cuda & Francesca
RESERVED SEATING $400 (6 lectures + 2 shows)
Gallagher, Mike Giobbe, Lynda & Jim Grant, Cotton Hanley,
INDIVIDUAL LECTURES from January to April 2017 (if available)
GENERAL ADMISSION $45/Lecture
RESERVED SEATING $60/Lecture
ENTERTAINMENT $25/Show General Admission | $40/Show Reserved
SPONSORSHIP $150/Lecture (includes Sponsor cocktail party)
WWII SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2017
10:30am
LYNNE OLSON, Churchill Fellow and Award-Winning
Writer and Journalist
SPEAKING ON HER BOOK,
THOSE ANGRY DAYS: ROOSEVELT,
LINDBERGH, AND AMERICA’S
FIGHT OVER WWII, 1939-1941
Lynne Olson’s writing
about Britain and
America before and
during World War II
has earned
international praise
and awards. She has
focused on Winston
Churchill and
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
as well as on ordinary Americans and Britons, to
show how these two countries joined together to
defeat Hitler and help save Western civilization.
Lynne’s latest book, Those Angry Days: Roosevelt,
Lindbergh and America’s Fight Over World War
II, 1939–1941, became an instant New York
Times bestseller. It is a definitive account of the
debate over American intervention in World War II—
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a bitter, sometimes violent clash of personalities
and ideas that divided the nation and ultimately
determined the fate of the free world.
Photo by: Stanley Cloud
2:00pm
PROFESSOR ANDREW ROBERTS, Prize-Winning
British Historian, Broadcaster and New York Times
Best-Selling Author
SPEAKING ON ROOSEVELT &
CHURCHILL: THE ROLE PERSONALITIES
PLAYED IN THE CREATION OF THE
GRAND STRATEGY
Andrew Roberts
examines the
Second World War
on every front, a
war that lasted for
2,174 days, cost
$1.5 trillion and
claimed the lives
of over 50 million
people. Roberts asks
why the war took the course that it did. His
book, The Storm of War: A New History of the
Candice & Lindsay Hooper, Judy & Stan Ikenberry, Sandra
Irvine-Pirtle & Raymond Pirtle, Steve Jansen, Anne & Ted
Johnson, Shelley & Roger Lewis, Peggy & David Mason,
Nancy Parker, Helen & Grant Parr, Nora Lea & Ed Reefe,
Erica Ress Martin & Gary Martin, Steve Schlecht, Barbara
& Bruce Stirling, Stan & Valerie Walch, Leslie & Patrick
Wallace, Marilyn & Howard Witt, Lizora Yonce
Second World War, gives a succinct but
dramatic account of the struggle that engulfed
the world between 1939 and 1945 and, in the
end, provides a convincing answer to that
question. Roberts has spent nearly 30 years
researching, writing and broadcasting
extensively about both Churchill and the Second
World War. He has won the Wolfson Prize for
History, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature, the Lehrman Institute Distinguished
Lecturer at the New-York Historical Society
and the chairman of the judging panel of the
Guggenheim-Lehrman Military Book Award.
The Storm of War won the British Army Military
Book Prize.
Photo by: Nancy Ellison
5:00pm
Sponsors Reception with featured conversation
by Lynne Olson, Andrews Roberts, Josiah
Bunting III and Neill Lochery on “Things You
Didn’t Know About WWII”.
PROUDLY SPONSORED BY: