Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts (born January 13, 1963 in London ) is a British historian and publicist. He is currently a professor at King's College London .

Live and act

Born in January 1963 in Hammersmith, London, to Simon and Kathleen Roberts, he attended the private Cranleigh School before graduating from Cambridge University at Gonville and Caius College in modern history. After that, he worked from 1985 to 1988 as an investment banker for the London bank Robert Fleming & Co . Roberts is a second marriage and lives in London; from the first divorced marriage he has two children.

Its first publication in 1991 was The Holy Fox , a revisionist biography of Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax . Roberts argued that while Halifax went down in history as one of the leading appeasers , he distanced himself from this policy after the Munich Agreement .

After Eminent Churchillians (1994), a collection of essays on Winston Churchill's contemporaries, and a dystopian novel ( The Aachen Memorandum , 1995), Salisbury: Victorian Titan was followed in 1999, a highly acclaimed biography about three-time Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury .

In September 2001 he published a book about the Battle of Waterloo and the mutual relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington . In 2003 Roberts published Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership , in which he dealt with the different leadership techniques of Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler . The book was also conceived as a rejection of various theses and claims made by Christopher Hitchens . In the same year Roberts became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts .

His book A History of the English Speaking Peoples since 1900 was critically received in 2006 ; Geographical and typographical errors were criticized in reviews, among other things, and the work was also described as a political pamphlet, filled with the author's prejudices.

The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War , published in August 2009, was a great commercial success and dealt thematically with individual focuses of the Second World War .

His biography of Napoleon ( Napoleon the Great , 2014) received the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Prix du Jury des Grands Prix de la Fondation Napoléon 2014 from the Fondation Napoléon.

In 2018 Roberts published his biography about Winston Churchill with the book Churchill: Walking With Destiny . This was immediately unanimously praised and recognized as a milestone. Although it was pointed out that it was now the more than one thousandth Churchill biography, Roberts was nevertheless able to set a new standard with good understanding and clear judgment.

Participation in daily discussions

Roberts speaks regularly about social and political discussions in his home country and appears regularly as a columnist for various newspapers such as The Spectator . Roberts is an avowed supporter of Thatcherism and advocates active interventionist policies for the United Kingdom as one of the world's leading moral policemen. He praised Tony Blair for his leadership and judged him to be an extremely successful Prime Minister. He also defended the Iraq war as essentially correct.

Roberts also supported Brexit and in this context vehemently criticized Winston Churchill's capture by the Remain campaign. Although friends with David Cameron , he called a speech by Cameron the "new low" of the Remain campaign; Cameron had cited key moments in British history as evidence that Britain should not turn its back on Europe. Roberts went on to point out that while Churchill encouraged and welcomed reconciliation between France and Germany, he did not see the United Kingdom as part of a European Union. In May 2015, Roberts predicted in an article in the Sunday Times that Boris Johnson would lead the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union. Roberts justified his (correct) prediction with recourse to a law which the historian Maurice Cowling, who died in 2005, had drawn up as "Cowling's Law".

Publications

• The Holy Fox: A Biography of Lord Halifax . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1991. ISBN 0-297-81133-9 .
• Eminent Churchillians . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1994. ISBN 0-297-81247-5 .
  • German: Churchill and his time. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-24132-2 .
• The Aachen Memorandum. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1995. ISBN 0-297-81619-5 .
• Salisbury: Victorian Titan . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1999. ISBN 978-0-297-81713-0 .
• The House of Windsor . University of California Press, Berkeley 2000. ISBN 0-520-22803-0 .
• Napoleon and Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo - And the Great Commanders Who Fought It . Simon & Schuster, New York 2001. ISBN 978-0-297-64607-5 .
• Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2003. ISBN 978-0-297-84330-6 .
• What Might Have Been . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2004. ISBN 978-0-297-84877-6 .
• Waterloo: June 18, 1815: Napoleon's Last Gamble . HarperCollins, New York 2005. ISBN 978-0-06-008866-8 .
• A History of the English Speaking Peoples since 1900 . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2006. ISBN 978-0-297-85076-2 .
• Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West . Allen Lane, London 2008. ISBN 978-0-7139-9969-3 .
• The Storm of War: a New History of the Second World War. Allen Lane. London 2009. ISBN 978-0-7139-9970-9 . & HarperCollins, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-122859-9 .
  • German translation: Firestorm: A history of the Second World War . CH Beck, 1st edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-70052-1 .
• Napoleon the Great. Allen Lane. London 2015. ISBN 978-1-84614-027-3 .
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Allen Lane. London 2018. ISBN 978-0-24120-563-1 .

Web links

• Official website of Andrew Roberts
• Brexit and the historians: now you have to jump

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UK's Who's Who: Roberts, Andrew Retrieved June 15, 2019.
2. ^ The Economist : Going out in the midday sun , November 2, 2006. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
3. ↑ The New York Times : Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? , November 13, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
4. ↑ The Jewish Chronicle : Book review: Churchill: Walking With Destiny , November 18, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
5. ↑ The Guardian : Andrew Roberts: The history man who loves to party , July 26, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
6. ↑ BBC : How will history judge Blair? , May 10, 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
7. ^ Daily Mail : Cameron's travesty of history , May 10, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
8. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Now you have to jump , November 1, 2019. Retrieved November 29, 2019.