Andrew Roberts - completing the project begun by Winston Churchill Andrew Roberts now averages 20,000 copies sales in hardback US rights pre-sold for high six-figure sum
Andrew Roberts took a first in Modern History at Cambridge. he has been a professional historian since the publication of his life of Lord Halifax, The Holy Fox, in 1991, and contributes regularly to the Sunday Telegraph. He lives in Kinghtsbridge, London, and has two children. His Salisbury won the Wolfson History Prize in 2000 and he published Napoleon and Wellington in 2001. For further information visit www.andrew-roberts.net
a brilliant revisionist history of the English-speaking peoples which deserves to beput into the hands of every teenager. - LITERARY REVIEW - Michael BurleighNow Andrew Roberts the celebrated biographer of Lord Halifax and Salisbury, takes the story to the present day in his own epic. - EVENING STANDARD - Brendan SimmsMagnificently provoking. ... A worthy successor to Churchill's history of the same subject. ... This is not a book for those who like their history written in various shades of apologetic grey. This is history written with the author's heart on his sleeve. This is a work of astonishing range and depth, combining as it does a polemical flair with sure-footed scholarship. - NEW STATESMAN - Hywel WilliamsThis book takes no prisoners. It is a bold, uncompromising trumpet blast in celebration of the political, economic and cultural achievements of the English-Speaking Peoples in the 20th century and until the present day. ... Roberts is never without a trenchant opinion or a scathing denunciation of humbug. In robust prose and armed with immense learning, he is always readable and never loses sight of his overarching theme. - DAILY EXPRESS - Christopher SilvesterThis book makes exhilarating reading if you believe all has been and remains right with the world as long as the English-speaking peoples are in charge. - THE DAILY MAIL - Peter Lewishe has
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