Andrew Roberts (historian), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Andrew Roberts (historian)

English historian

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1963

Place of Birth: London

Profession: historian, biographer, journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Andrew Roberts (historian)

  • Andrew Roberts (born 13 January 1963) is a British historian and journalist.
  • 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.
  • Roberts was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he earned a first-class degree in Modern History. His public commentary has appeared in several periodicals such as The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator.
  • Roberts himself is best known for his 2009 non-fiction work The Storm of War, which covers historical factors of the Second World War such as Hitler's rise to power and the organisation of Nazi Germany.
  • The book has been lauded by several publications such as The Economist, and received the British Army Military Book of the Year Award for 2010.Elsewhere, his work has sometimes been criticised by, for example, The Economist who described one book as "a giant political pamphlet larded with its author's prejudices, with sneers at those who do not share them and with errors".
  • However, much of Roberts' work, including his 2018 biography of Winston Churchill, has been widely praised; the Sunday Times, for example, called the Churchill biography 'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written.' In his writings, Roberts supports an interventionist role for the UK in global diplomatic and military affairs, advocating "an active part in defending decency" through the UK's being "one of the world’s foremost moral policemen".

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