Dr. Andrew Roberts was born January 13, 1963, in London and is a journalist and historian. He is the son of Simon Roberts (a business executive) and Kathleen (nee Hillery-Collings). Simon, from Cobham, Surrey, inherited the Job’s Dairy milk business and he owned the UK contingent of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
Andrew was a prolific reader during his childhood, and quickly gained a passion for history, especially for dramatic works relating to “storytelling, personality, wars, battles, death, and assassinations”.
He took a first-class honors BA degree in Modern History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge from where he’s an honorary senior scholar and a Doctor of Philosophy PhD.
Books in order of publication:
Non-Fiction Books
| ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax | (1991) | |
| The Aachen Memorandum | (1995) | |
| Eminent Churchillians | (1995) | |
| Churchill: Embattled Hero | (1995) | |
| Salisbury: Victorian Titan | (2000) | |
| Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel | (2001) | |
| The Secret History of PWE: The Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945 (With: David Garnett) | (2002) | |
| Hitler and Churchill. Secrets of Leadership | (2003) | |
| What Might Have Been | (2004) | |
| Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle For Modern Europe | (2005) | |
| A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 | (2006) | |
| Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945 | (2008) | |
| The Art Of War: Great Commanders Of The Modern World Since 1600 | (2008) | |
| The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War | (2011) | |
| The Great Commanders of the Early Modern World 1567-1865 | (2011) | |
| Love, Tommy: War Letters from the Frontline 1914-2010 | (2012) | |
| Letters from the Front: From the First World War to the Present Day | (2014) | |
| Napoleon: A Life | (2014) | |
| Elegy: The First Day on the Somme | (2015) | |
| Churchill: Walking with Destiny | (2018) | |
| Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History | (2019) | |
| The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III | (2021) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Great Commanders of the Medieval World, 454-1582 (2008)
Great Commanders of the Ancient World, 1479BC – 453AD
(2008) Great Commanders of the Modern World, 1866-Present Day (2009)
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