Seen From a Distance - A View of Mankind and War

Tod Benjamin


Regions:
Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire
Notice Period:
Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
Type:
Ex Rotary Club President; Published author of novels and memoirs.
Fee:
Unknown: Depending upon distance and time, possibly minimal expenses
Category:
Humanities
Updated:
5th September 2025

On the fiftieth anniversary of El Alamein, (which occurred when I was six years old), I visited Edinburgh's central library and looked at the newspaper reports written at that time. What I found spurred me to philosophise upon the conclusions drawn from that enlightening visit.

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About Tod Benjamin

After a business life during which I delivered a series of talks to Rotary Clubs in between travelling across the world to establish my chemical company, I retired in 1995 to a life of golf, voluntary work and writing. My first novel was published in 2015, and I was invited to read from another of my works, a short memoir, at the West Cork Literary Festival in 2017. Then followed my grand project: 'Charles and Charlie', Book I of The Stoker Trilogy, was published in 2020; Book II, 'The Tally Man', in 2022; and Book III, 'Acceptance', was released in 2024. Several of my poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies; and also online by The Society of Classical Poets. Recently, I completed my memoirs, which are soon to be published, and I am currently working on a project which, with musical interludes to illustrate, tells the story of Beethoven's life in terms of what he did for classical music. When completed this will provide three separate presentations.


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