Biography

Dr. Andrew Roberts

Dr. Andrew Roberts holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, is a Visiting Professor at the War Studies Department of King's College, London, the Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at the New-York Historical Society, and the author of 13 books. He is a Trustee of the International Churchill Society, the Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust and the National Portrait Gallery. He is also the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Dr. Roberts’ latest book, a biography of Sir Winston Churchill, was released in the United States in November and has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "unarguably the best single-volume biography of the man." For "Churchill: Walking with Destiny," Roberts draws from 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI recorded during World War II.