The book has been lauded by several publications such as The Economist, and it additionally received the British Army Military Book of the Year Award 2010. Roberts himself is possibly best known internationally for his 2009 non-fiction work The Storm of War, which covers historical facts of WW2, such as Hitler's rise to power and the organisation of Nazi Germany. His public commentary has appeared in several periodicals such as the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. Roberts was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he earned a first-class degree in Modern History.

He is a Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, a Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at the New York Historical Society. This is the Churchill biography for our times and the next generation.Īndrew Roberts (FRHistS) was born in 1963 and is an historian and journalist.

Roberts has used over forty collections of papers not available to Churchill's previous biographer Roy Jenkins (2001) and he is the first Churchill biographer to be granted access by the Queen to the private diaries of King George VI. He gives full visibility to Churchill's flaws, and brilliantly explains his genius. 'I felt that I was walking with destiny, and all my life had been but preparation for that hour.' Andrew Robert's titanic new biography interprets all these events, especially Churchill's leadership during the Second World War, which he sees through the prism of all Churchill's earlier life. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell at the Pyramids, the Chancellor who took the country back to the Gold Standard and then spent more than ten years in the political wilderness - and who, finally, was summoned to save his country in 1940. Winston Churchill dominates our view of the history of Britain in the twentieth century - the brash, brave and ambitious young aristocrat who sought out danger in late Victorian wars, the mercurial First Lord of the Admiralty who was responsible for the Dardanelles disaster in 1915, the Home Secretary who crushed the General Strike in 1926, the Colonial Secretary who rode with T.

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