Hawthorne Theatre / Events / Tue 10 Jun 2014

Paddy Ashdown: A Cruel Victory

Paddy Ashdown: A Cruel Victory

From best-selling author of A Brilliant Little Operation comes the long neglected D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and subsequent massacre on the Vercors massif – the largest action by the French Resistance during the Second World War.

The Vercors massif stretches from the ancient city of Grenoble to the vineyards of Valence to the
south-west. Its forbidding cliffs and high plateau form a natural fortress, today the Vercors is a
place of escape but it has bitter wartime memories – of refuge from retribution, persecution and
bloody repression.

A Cruel Victory will be published on May 15th

Lord Ashdown
After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, Paddy Ashdown was a Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. Later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006. He now sits in the House of Lords.

TICKET PRICE

£18 - Standard

£15.60 - Zebra Card

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Event Location

Hawthorne Theatre

The Campus
Welwyn Garden City
Herts
AL8 6BX

Telephone: 01707 357 117
Email: campuswest@welhat.gov.uk
Website: http://www.hawthornetheatre.co.uk/performance-paddy-ashdown-a-cruel-victory-210/

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