CHURCHILL IS TOPIC OF HAROLD DUGGER LECTURE

"Churchill: The End of Glory" will be the topic when John Charmley, a visiting professor at Westminster College, speaks tonight at the Harold Dugger Lecture at Southeast Missouri State University.

The event is set for 7:15 p.m. in the Missouriana-Indian Room of the University Center.

Charmley is from Coventry, England. He is a 1982 graduate of Pembroke College in Oxford, where he received his doctorate of philosophy degree. He teaches at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where he serves as a lecturer in British history.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain and David Lloyd George are the subjects of Charmley's most recent books. His latest work, "Churchill: The End of Glory," was published last September. In the controversial book, Charmley argues that Britain made a mistake by failing to make peace with Nazi Germany in 1940. Charmley says Germany's Adolf Hitler never wanted to fight Britain and that he had extended peace feelers to Churchill.

Charmley is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and holds a Fellow Commonship at Churchill College in Cambridge. In 1986, he received the Yorkshire Post Award for "best first book" for his biography of Duff Cooper.