Attending speakers include: -

* Lt Gen Sir Simon Mayall (House of War)

* Ian Smith (AI Entrepreneur, Investor and Thought Leader)

* Tim Spicer OBE (A Suspicion of Spies)

* Charles Spicer (Coffee with Hitler)

* Jonathan Aitken (Porridge and Passion, Heroes and Contemporaries - joining later for dinner)

* Mark Hollingsworth (Agents of Influence, Londongrad)

* Ex-SAS Captain Anthony de Norman (Closer to Paradise)

* Sunday Times Best-Selling Author Col Stuart Tootal (The Last Para, Danger Close)

* Nicholas Hopton (former Ambassador to Iraq, Libya, Qatar and Yemen)

* Jonathan Glancey (Operation Bowler: The Audacious Bombing of Venice)