PERSON: Andrew Roberts

New York Historical Society

Lecturer

Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia (born 13 January 1963), is an English popular historian and journalist. He is the 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. He was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 2013 to 2021.

Roberts’s historical research has focused mostly on English-speaking nations, particularly those closely tied socially to the United Kingdom, such as the United States. Roberts is known internationally for his 2009 book The Storm of War, which covers socio-political factors of the Second World War, such as Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and the administrative organization of Nazi Germany. It received the British Army Military Book of the Year Award for 2010, and achieved commercial success, reaching No. 2 on The Sunday Times best-seller list. Much of Roberts’s later work, including his 2014 and 2018 biographies of Napoleon and Sir Winston Churchill, has been widely praised. Roberts’s public commentary has additionally appeared in several British publications, such as The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, including his support for Atlanticism within international relations.

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