Professor Andrew Roberts took a First in modern history from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from where he is an Honorary Senior Scholar and PhD. He is the author of fifteen books, which have been translated into twenty-three languages, including Salisbury: Victorian Titan (which won the Wolfson Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award), A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (which won the US Intercollegiate Studies Institute Book Award), Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West 1941-45 (which won the International Churchill Society Book Award), The Storm of War (which won the British Army Book Award), Napoleon The Great (which won the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize and the Prix du Jury of the Fondation Napoléon) and Churchill: Walking with Destiny (which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Award).
Prof. Roberts is the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, an honorary Doctor of Humane Literature, a trustee of the Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust and the National Portrait Gallery, chairman of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Military Book Prize, the Lehrman Institute Distinguished Fellow at the New-York Historical Society, and a Visiting Professor of the War Studies Department of King’s College, London. He reviews history books for over a dozen newspapers and periodicals. His website can be found at www.andrew-roberts.net