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Andrew Roberts
Historian; Visiting Fellow, Stanford University Hoover Institution; Distinguished Fellow, New York Historical Society; Visiting Professor, War Studies Department, King’s College, London
Andrew Roberts is a historian, author, and professor. He has written over a dozen books including the award-winning titles Salisbury: Victorian Titan; Masters and Commanders; The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War; and Napoleon the Great, as well as the New York Times best-seller Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and a visiting professor in the War Studies Department at King’s College of London. A public speaker and commentator, he writes reviews of history books and biographies for several publications.
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Historian Andrew Roberts examines Churchill's description of becoming prime minister in May 1940: "I felt as if I were walking with destiny and that all my past life had been...