Council Literary Series: Tim Bouverie
11am | Reception
11:30am | Author Program
12:30pm | Lunch and Book Signing
The Maybourne Beverly Hills ( 225 N Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210)
Parking Information
Please note that parking will not be hosted. Guests have the following options:
- Valet Parking at The Maybourne – $23 for the first 3 hours, then $3 per additional half-hour.
- Self-Parking at Beverly Canon Gardens (242 N Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210) – Free for the first 2 hours, then $3 per additional half-hour. Daily maximum: $22.
If you have any questions, please email The Council office at thecouncil@lfla.org or call 213.228.7506.
Our Guest Author:
Tim Bouverie
Tim Bouverie is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. He studied history at Christ Church Oxford and was the 2020-21 Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford.
About the Book:
Allies at War
Allies at War is a fast-paced, narrative history, based on material drawn from over a hundred archives. Using vivid, first-hand accounts and unpublished diaries, we enter the rooms where the critical decisions were made while going beyond the confines of the Grand Alliance to examine, among other themes, the doomed Anglo-French alliance, fractious relations with General de Gaulle and the Free French, and interactions with Poland, Greece and Nationalist China.
Ambitious and compelling, revealing the political drama behind the military events, Allies at War offers a fresh perspective on the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War.
Praise
“Enthralling and authoritative…Deeply researched and gracefully written.” — Michael F. Bishop, Wall Street Journal
“Tim Bouverie has done a remarkable thing: He has found a novel and illuminating way to tell the story of World War II, and in so doing he has given us an important and timely study of the centrality and the complexity of alliances. This is a terrific book.” — Jon Meacham
