Lynne Olson, author of Citizens of London, will be speaking at the Eccles Centre for American Studies on 4 November about the wartime alliance forged between Britain and the US during WWII.
Focusing on the three key American players in London: Edward R Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking news reporter; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran President Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease programme in London; and John G Winant, the shy, idealistic US ambassador, Olson will discuss how these men fought to save Britain in its darkest hour.