Tuesday 11th March
18:00 - 19:00
Current affairs
£7/£6
Few would doubt that the Iraq war is failing with weak war aims and no plan for the end of conflict. Paddy Ashdown joins David Stafford to discuss how previous wars have ended better than the Iraq disaster and how to make sure that future conflicts do not turn into long-term entanglements. Between 2002 and 2006, Sir Paddy Ashdown was High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, seeing at first hand the effects of war. His latest book, Swords and Ploughshares: bringing peace to the 21st century, reflects on that experience, and has been widely praised. David Stafford’s latest book, Endgame 1945, looks at the last months of the Second World War and was called by the Sunday Times ’a gripping and moving book... an epic panorama of the death throes of Nazism [making] brilliant use of the individual stories of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events’.