Andrew Roberts, “The State of Churchill’s Reputation Today”

Historian and author Andrew Roberts addresses the 36th International Churchill Conference in Washington, D.C.

Dr Andrew Roberts has spent nearly thirty years researching, writing and
broadcasting extensively about Churchill and the Second World War. His first book, The Holy Fox, was a biography of Churchill’s foreign secretary Lord Halifax.
Since then he has published—amongst many other books—Eminent Churchillians,
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (accompanying his four-part BBC
history series), A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (which won
the 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 ICS Emery Reves Prize), The Storm of War: A New History of the
Second World War (which won the British Army Military Book Prize), Napoleon: A
Life, and Churchill: Walking with Destiny.


Dr. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical
Society, the Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at the New York Historical
Society, a visiting professor at the War Studies Department of King’s College,
London, and the chairman of the judges of the Lehrman Institute Military Book
Award. He lives in London and reviews history books for over a dozen newspapers
and periodicals. His website can be found at www.andrew-roberts.net