About this Event
What can we learn from the past to navigate an increasingly perilous world? Join the prize-winning historian for the story of warfare from 1945 to the present day.
What tragedies occur when leaders refuse to learn from history?
What can the past tell us about future warfare?
What are the challenges, for statesmen and generals alike, of learning to adapt to an age of new weapon systems, theories, and strategies?
The bestselling historian and biographer Andrew Roberts made his reputation with landmark volumes on Napoleon and the Second World War. Now he turns his attention to the present, exploring what the last seventy years of conflict tell us about what the decades ahead will bring.
From Korea and Vietnam to the Gulf wars, the Balkan wars, guerilla conflicts and beyond to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, this livestream In Conversation event with one of our most insightful living historians will give you the knowledge you need to understand the world in our perilous times and prime you for what the decades ahead may bring. Don’t miss it.
Andrew Roberts is an internationally bestselling historian and biographer whose books include The Storm of War, Napoleon the Great (winner of the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon) and George III. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Saint James Church, Clerkenwell Close, London, United Kingdom
GBP 30.00 to GBP 68.00
