Andrew Roberts
Popular historian and journalist
Andrew Roberts is an English popular historian and journalist who has written biographies of Napoleon and Winston Churchill.
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British Born 1963 in London, United Kingdom
About Andrew Roberts
Andrew Roberts was born on 13 January 1963. He studied Modern History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he earned a first class degree and later a doctorate. The Royal Society of Literature counts him among its fellows. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a distinguished lecturer at the New York Historical Society. From 2013 to 2021 he served as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery in London. His books include The Storm of War, which earned a British Army book award in 2010, and Salisbury: Victorian Titan. He has also written biographies of Napoleon and Winston Churchill, and his commentary has appeared in The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. BookBits features his book Napoleon the Great.