Tuesday 19th April, 2011
RACV Club, 501 Bourke St Melbourne

5.30pm arrival for a 6.00pm start

Please RSVP by Tuesday 12th April

This lecture is free and open to the public

In the week before ANZAC Day is commemorated once again, Professor David Reynolds will offer some topical reflections on how the two world wars have shaped Australia's sense of meaning of the 20th century.

He will set the Australian story against the experience of other belligerant countries - including Britain, France, Germany, America and Russia  to show the very different siginificance that each nation has ascribed to the same two conflicts. History is a central element in concepts of national identity: this lecture offers a broder international perspective on Australia's saga.

David Reynolds, Professor of International History at Cambridge Unifersity and a Fellow of Christ's College, is one of the world's leading experts on twentieth century world history. An award-winning author, Professor Reynolds has written extensively on transatlantic relations during the Second World War and the Cold War.