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Battlefields Trust Online Talk: The War in Ukraine: Towards WWIII?

Tuesday 27th May 2025

The territory now known as Ukraine has been successively a Mongol khanate, part of Lithuania, part of the Polish Empire, and incorporated in Tsarist and Soviet Russia until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 when its population voted for independence. This talk will trace the history of Ukraine from earliest times to the present, looking at the question of Crimea, asking whether Russian claims about its security have any validity, examining the course of the war to date and looking at what the future might bring.

Gordon Corrigan was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962 and was an officer of the permanent cadre of the Royal Gurkha Rifles before leaving the army in 1998. He is the author of Sepoys in the Trenches, The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914 – 1915; Wellington, A Military Life; Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War; Loos 1915, The Unwanted Battle; Blood, Sweat and Arrogance – And The Myths of Churchill’s War; The Second World War – A Military History; A Great and Glorious Adventure – A Military History of the Hundred Years War; and Waterloo – A New History of the Battle and its Armies as well as over twenty eBooks. He has presented numerous television programmes and has conducted military history study tours in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Portugal, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and is a regular lecturer on expedition ships with Silver Sea and on rail journeys in Europe and Central Asia with GW Travel.

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