Andrew Roberts Books in Order

Roberts's first book is a life of Lord Halifax, the foreign secretary so often reduced to the label of appeaser. He follows Halifax from India to the crisis of 1940, and argues for a more complicated reading of his choices.

A short, sharp reassessment of Winston Churchill and the political world around him. Roberts pushes past simple hero worship to look at Churchill's critics, alliances, and the arguments that shaped his reputation.

This revisionist collection re-examines famous figures and institutions around Churchill's Britain, from the royal family to Mountbatten and the Conservative Party. Roberts is interested in the myths people built after the war, and what the documents complicate.

Set in 2045, this political thriller begins when Horatio finds a dead admiral and steps into a web of suspicion. Roberts mixes murder mystery, future politics, and satire in his lone novel.

This biography follows the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury through Victorian politics, empire, and foreign policy. Roberts presents him as a shrewd, often underestimated prime minister whose private doubts sat beside immense public power.

A compact royal history of the Windsor dynasty, tracing the family from George V’s wartime name change through abdication, war, Elizabeth II’s reign, media pressure, and Diana’s death.

Roberts studies the strange rivalry between Napoleon and Wellington, two commanders who judged, mocked, admired, and haunted each other for decades. The book blends battlefield history with personality, vanity, propaganda, and the long afterlife of Waterloo.

With an introduction and notes by Andrew Roberts, this book uncovers the Political Warfare Executive, Britain's secret propaganda arm in the war against Nazi Germany. It follows black propaganda, psychological warfare, and the internal rivalries behind the operation.

By setting Hitler and Churchill side by side, Roberts examines how leadership can inspire, manipulate, or destroy. It is both a comparison of two wartime figures and a broader argument about how power works.

Edited by Roberts, this collection of counterfactual essays asks how history might have changed if a few key moments had gone differently. Different historians tackle scenarios from the Armada to Pearl Harbor and beyond.

Roberts retells the battle of Waterloo as a tense, confusing two-day struggle shaped by missed chances, weather, timing, and human error. It is both a brisk battle narrative and a study of why Napoleon's career ended there.

Starting where Churchill's own history stops, Roberts follows Britain, the United States, and other English-speaking countries through the twentieth century. He argues that shared political habits and institutions mattered as much as military power.

This book looks at Churchill, Roosevelt, Alan Brooke, and George Marshall, and the arguments that shaped Allied strategy in the West. Roberts turns planning meetings and personality clashes into a clear story about how the war was actually directed.

Edited by Roberts, this volume surveys major military commanders of the modern world, pairing short biographies with focused battle studies. It is a visual, accessible guide to how strategy, leadership, and battlefield judgment changed after 1600.

Edited by Roberts, this illustrated collection profiles major commanders from the early modern age, asking what made them effective and where they failed. Short expert essays and battle analysis make it easy to browse or read straight through.

Roberts tells the Second World War on a global scale while asking a blunt question, why did the Axis lose? He moves from grand strategy to battlefield detail and tests whether different decisions might have changed the war's outcome.

Drawn from Imperial War Museum archives, this collection brings together especially moving letters from British and Commonwealth troops to the people waiting at home. Love, fear, boredom, wit, and grief all sit close together.

This anthology gathers letters sent home from the front line, letting soldiers, sailors, and airmen speak in their own voices. The result is intimate war history, full of longing, worry, humor, and quiet courage.

Roberts's one-volume life of Napoleon uses the vast publication of his letters and visits to battlefields across Europe. It follows the conqueror as soldier, ruler, propagandist, and exile, and tries to understand both his brilliance and his appetite for control.

In this short polemic, Roberts argues that anti-Semitism has not disappeared, it has changed shape. He links older prejudices to newer political language around Jews and Israel, and urges readers to take the threat seriously.

A short history of 1 July 1916, when the Somme offensive began and the British Army suffered catastrophic losses. Roberts combines the scale of the disaster with stories of fear, endurance, and remarkable courage.

Drawing on newly available sources, Roberts follows Winston Churchill from youth to old age, with special attention to the Second World War. The book keeps his flaws in view while explaining the energy, judgment, and stubbornness that made him such a force.

A lively history of British comedy duos, from music hall pairings to radio, television, and later sketch acts. Roberts looks at how the comic and straight man work together, and why the form lasted.

Roberts studies nine wartime leaders, from Napoleon and Nelson to Churchill, Stalin, Eisenhower, and Thatcher. He compares how they made decisions under pressure, and what separated useful authority from disastrous command.

This short devotional guide helps churches and individuals think about worship as a regular way of life, not just a service on Sunday. It offers Bible readings, reflections, prayers, and practical prompts for group use.

Roberts reconsiders George III, arguing that the king Americans love to hate was more capable and humane than legend allows. Using new correspondence, he follows George through revolution, illness, family life, and the loss of the colonies.

This book rethinks privacy through republican political theory. Roberts argues that privacy matters because it protects people from domination, and that real protection depends on democratic control over the powers that threaten it.

Roberts revisits George III with sympathy and a mountain of correspondence, challenging the familiar picture of a foolish tyrant. The book follows the king through domestic duty, mental illness, and the upheavals of the American age.

Roberts tells the life of press baron Lord Northcliffe, the man who built the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, and a huge share of Fleet Street. It is a story of media power, innovation, ambition, and political influence.

Co-written with David Petraeus, this wide-ranging study tracks how warfare changed after 1945 and what modern commanders still get wrong. It moves through Cold War flashpoints, insurgencies, and recent wars, including Ukraine and the Middle East.

Roberts turns from Napoleon alone to the generals he promoted to marshal, men whose talent, vanity, bravery, and rivalry helped build the empire. It is as much about leadership and loyalty as it is about battle.