Books by Andrew Roberts
Andrew Roberts is a British historian and journalist. He is a Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, a Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at the New York Historical Society. He has written or edited nineteen books—including internationally bestselling biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte and Winston Churchill—which have been translated into 23 languages.
Napoleon: A Life
by Andrew Roberts
🎯 A bestselling book on Five Books in 2024
Napoleon: A Life (2014) by Andrew Roberts, a single-volume biography, continues to be an international bestseller in both UK and US editions. Awarded a 'Prix du Jury' by the Fondation Napoleon—a French prize which encourages research into the erstwhile emperor—the judging panel wrote, "it's been all too common for Anglo-Saxon biographies to be overly negative about Napoleon...and portray him practically as a proto-Hitler...this is the real Napoleon. Roberts reminds us that his achievements in time of peace produced countless innovations of which the Napoleonic code is the most famous, a system of civil law still in place all over the world today."
Andrew Roberts talked to us in-depth about Napoleon's life, his rise to power, his weaknesses and his achievements, while also recommending the best books on Napoleon.
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts
If you're looking for just one book about Winston Churchill, and especially about his role in World War II, Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts is the book for you.
“In the book, there’s a referendum in 2015 for Britain to join the United States of Europe, a referendum which is passed, bizarrely, 52% to 48%. The book is set in 2045 and the spiffily named hero, Horatio Lestocq, discovers that the referendum was carried only because of large-scale electoral fraud. And then he goes about trying to prove this. It’s a counterfactual in the way Robert Harris did with Fatherland or Len Deighton did with SS-GB, where the Nazis had won the war.” Read more...
Boris Starling, Thriller and Crime Writer
Interviews with Andrew Roberts
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The Campaigns of Napoleon
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Talleyrand
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With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon and His German Allies in the 1809 Campaign
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Private Memoirs Of The Court Of Napoleon
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With Napoleon in Russia: Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza
by Armand de Caulaincourt
The best books on Napoleon, recommended by Andrew Roberts
The best books on Napoleon, recommended by Andrew Roberts
How did Napoleon Bonaparte, an upstart Corsican, go on to conquer half of Europe in the 16 years of his rule? Was he a military genius? And was he really that short? Historian Andrew Roberts, author of a bestselling biography of Napoleon, introduces us to the books that shaped how he sees l’Empereur—including little-known sources from those who knew Napoleon personally. Read more history book recommendations on Five Books
Interviews where books by Andrew Roberts were recommended
The best books on Brexit, recommended by Boris Starling
Looking for a good Brexit book? Brexit is as complicated as the Schleswig-Holstein question and as vicious as Game of Thrones. Boris Starling, author of The Bluffer’s Guide to Brexit, talks us through some Brexit books that will leave you better read and even more mystified about what the future holds for Britain and Europe.
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
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The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert
Award Winning Biographies of 2022, recommended by Sophie Roell
Award Winning Biographies of 2022, recommended by Sophie Roell
In telling stories of lives that are often very different from our own and yet connected to us by our common humanity, biographies are some of the most compelling nonfiction books around. Five Books editor Sophie Roell rounds up some of the biographies that have won or been shortlisted for prizes in 2022.
