'Coffee with Hitler' Dr Charles Spicer in conversation with Dr Janet O'Sullivan

Tuesday 7th March 6:00pm GMT Livestreamed from the Quarry Whitehouse Auditorium, Selwyn College, The University of Cambridge Dr Charles Spicer will be in conversation with Selwyn's vice-master, Dr Janet O'Sullivan to discuss his new history book, 'Coffee with Hitler: The British amateurs who tried to civilise the Nazis'. It tells the astounding and poignant story, for the first time, of a handful of amateur British intelligence agents who wined, dined and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars. With support from royalty, aristocracy, politicians and businessmen, they hoped to use the much mythologised Anglo-German Fellowship as a vehicle to civilise the Nazis. A pacifist Welsh historian, a Great War flying ace, and a butterfly-collecting businessman offered the British government better intelligence on the horrifying rise of the Nazis than anyone else. Coffee With Hitler is Charles Spicer's first book and is based on eight years of painstaking research among letters, intelligence reports, membership lists, and other primary sources, many of which have been lost or overlooked by historians for the past eighty years.