Andrew Roberts is a British historian and author known for his acclaimed works on Winston Churchill, World War II, and modern political history. He contributed essays and book reviews to The Weekly Standard from 2005 to 2017, frequently covering military history, diplomacy, and major historical figures. His books include 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny' and 'The Storm of War.'
"In my opinion,” wrote Admiral Lord Charles Beresford to Leo Maxse, the editor of the British conservative magazine National Review, in April 1915, “Churchill is a serious danger to the State. After Antwerp, and now the Dardanelles, the Government really ought to get rid of him.” Six months later,…
"In my opinion,” wrote Admiral Lord Charles Beresford to Leo Maxse, the editor of the British conservative magazine National Review, in April 1915, “Churchill is a serious danger to the State. After Antwerp, and now the Dardanelles, the Government really ought to get rid of him.” Six months later,…
Many Americans are astonished by the fact that in July 1945, having won the Second World War in Europe, Winston Churchill was defeated in the general election and had to leave the premiership despite having been so personally popular and militarily successful in that job. Yet that extraordinary…
‘There never was a war in all history easier to prevent by timely action than the one which has just desolated such great areas of the globe," wrote Winston Churchill in 1946. "It could have been prevented in my belief without the firing of a single shot . . . but no one would listen and one by…
"Oh, Winston, why?” Field Marshal Jan Smuts is said to have remonstrated with Churchill over his war memoirs, which Smuts considered too self-serving. “Why did you have to do that? You, more than anyone in the world, could have written as no one else could have written the true history of the war.”…
"Tonight my country stands alone,” the British historian and diplomat John Wheeler-Bennett told the American people in a radio broadcast on the night of June 17, 1940, the day that France capitulated to Hitler. He continued: Alone before the embattled might of totalitarian Europe, Nazi Germany…
Whenever discussion turns to the causes of the Irish “Troubles,” the decades-long terrorist campaign of the Irish Republican Army to force the British government to relinquish Ulster as part of the United Kingdom, it inevitably focuses on the terrible events of January 30, 1972, known to both sides…
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