IWM In Conversation: Charles Glass on ‘Soldiers Don’t Go Mad’
20th March, 2025
6.30pm to 8.30pm
IWM London
Join author and journalist Charles Glass as he introduces his book, Soldiers Don’t Go Mad, which explores Craiglockhart Hospital, a facility used during the First World War to treat ‘Shell Shock’, now known as PTSD. Charles Glass will discuss the lives of the patients and medical staff at the hospital, and the treatments Craiglockhart offered. Among the patients were Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, who would go on to create some of the most impactful poetry of the twentieth century, vividly depicting the horrors of war in the trenches. Following Charles Glass’ talk, live Q&A and book signing, you will have the opportunity to explore IWM’s temporary exhibition War and the Mind, exploring the psychological impact of conflict.
To find out more and to book tickets visit the IWM website here.
Annual Gala Awards Dinner & 32nd Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference
12th-13th November, 2024
The Ronald Reagan Building International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004
9:00 – 10:15 A.M. 13th Global Outlook: What’s Next for the United States, the Arab Region, and the World?
Come to the Oldie Literary Lunch – Tom Hodgkinson, Charles Glass and Michael Mansfield
Tuesday 5th March 2024
At the National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE
To book tickets, email reservations@theoldie.co.uk or call Katherine on 01225 427 311, Mon – Fri (9.30am-3pm).
£79 for a 3-course lunch, including wine.
Vegetarian options available upon request. Meet the speakers at 12 noon with drinks and book signings before lunch.
Sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers
Soldiers Don’t Go Mad UK Book Launch
Tuesday 28th November
6.30pm
Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus
History Camp Discussions
Thursday, June 8, 2023 @ 8 pm Eastern
Charles Glass
Join us at HistoryCamp.org for this free event discussing Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War, a brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I.
New America online event
June 12, 2023
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Webcast link
Join New America’s International Security Program for a discussion with Charles Glass, author of Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War. Glass is a fellow with New America’s International Security program and a writer, journalist, broadcaster and publisher, who has written on conflict in the Middle East, Africa and Europe for the past forty-five years.
Join the conversation online using #SoldiersDontGoMad and following @NewAmericaISP.
Moderator:
Peter Bergen, @peterbergencnn
Vice President, New America
Co-Director, Center on the Future of War, ASU
Professor of Practice, ASU
Syria: Charles Glass on where to from here
Broadcast 20 Apr 2023 ABC Radio National
Syria is a culturally rich and complicated country battling war, corruption, political interference and Islamic insurrection. Former Chief Middle East correspondent for the American ABC, Charles Glass, reflects on the lessons he has learned from his time there.
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS
at the American University of Paris
invites you to a Zoom talk by
CHARLES GLASS
Charles Glass was doing his masters in philosophy, when Peter Jennings hired him to work in the ABC News Beirut Bureau. With Jennings, he covered the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War on the Egyptian and Syrian fronts. He also reported the civil war in Lebanon, where artillery fire wounded him in 1976. After reporting for the Observer in London and for Newsweek, he returned to ABC News as Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993. Since 1993, he has been a freelance writer and broadcaster in Paris, Tuscany and London, regularly covering the Middle East, the Balkans, southeast Asia and the Mediterranean. He has also published books, short stories, essays and articles in the United States and Europe. He is completing a book for Penguin Press on shell shocked officers at an asylum in Scotland to be titled:
Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: Shell Shock, Madness and Poetry at Craiglockhart Hospital in the First World War
Paris-based CNN Correspondent Jim Bittermann will moderate the conversation:
From Philosophy Student to Journalist to Author – The Riveting Story by Charles Glass
Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 6 pm/18h CET-Paris, 12 pm EST-NY time
RSVP to bernahuebner@gmail.com (You will receive a Zoom link upon RSVP)
A donation of $25 is suggested. Click here to contribute.
All proceeds will go to our scholarship fund and continuing our support of deserving students.
Iran, Israel, and the Future of the Middle East
Bernard Avishai and Charles Glass
Emmanuel Centre
9-23 Marsham Street, London
SW1P 3DW
Together, Bernard and Charles will explore how the Suleimani assassination has affected the strategic interests of the key actors in the region – and offer their predictions for what will happen next. Don’t miss this meeting between two of the most formidable thinkers on Middle Eastern affairs.
RADIO INTERVIEW – The Scott Horton Show
October 21 – Scott interviews Charles Glass about America’s long involvement in Syria, starting with the Obama administration’s support for the insurgent side in the country’s civil war in 2011. This move, made partly with the intent to limit the influence of Iran and Russia in the Middle East, has actually ended up strengthening them, as their positions have been vindicated by the failure to overthrow the Assad regime. Glass outlines the many times the U.S. has used the Kurds for their own devices and then betrayed them when it became convenient.
RADIO INTERVIEW
Charles Glass talks to Scott Horton about the arrest of Julian Assange.
Friday 17th May
Book Culture on Columbus: Charles Glass on They Fought Alone
Tuesday 5 March – 7:00pm
450 Columbus Ave, New York City 10024
Join Harper’s Magazine and Book Culture on Columbus on Tuesday, March 5th at 7pm, as we welcome Charles Glass for a discussion of his book, They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France.
To find out more visit bookculture.com
Charles Glass – The Horror of Syria: What Happened, What Might Have Been Different
February 21, 4:30pm
The Dickey Center, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
Return of a Native
Diwan | 10th March 2018
In an interview with Michael Young, Senior Editor, Diwan – Carnegie Middle East Center, Charles Glass speaks of Lebanon, his books, and what he really thinks about war…
Read more →
Dhaka Literary Festival
16 – 18 November 2017
Bangla Academy
Suharwardy Udyan Road,
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
http://dhakalitfest.com/
Read Nadia Kabir Barb’s profile of Charles Glass,
The man who has lived and breathed his subject.
The Balfour Declaration: 100 Years On
Wednesday, 4th October 2017, 07:00 PM
https://www.frontlineclub.com/the-balfour-declaration-100-years-on/
