The chief
£12.99The official biography of Lord Northcliffe, the founding father of the Daily Mail and the modern British press
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The Chief
£25.00The official biography of Lord Northcliffe, the founding father of the Daily Mail and the modern British press
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George III
£35.00Andrew Roberts’s biography takes entirely the opposite view. It convincingly portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty.
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Leadership in war
£10.99Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Margaret Thatcher. Each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war their nation was embroiled in. Meticulously researched and compellingly written, this book presents readers with fresh, complex portraits of leaders who approached war with different tactics and different weapons, but with the common goal of success in the face of battle.
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Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax
£12.00The 3rd Viscount Halifax was a church-going, fox-hunting aristocrat, but it was his political guile that earned him the nickname ‘the Holy Fox’. Roberts presents Lord Halifax as an enigmatic, influential and much maligned politician.
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
£18.99Winston Churchill dominates our view of the history of Britain in the twentieth century – the brash, brave and ambitious young aristocrat who sought out danger in late Victorian wars, the mercurial First Lord of the Admiralty who was responsible for the Dardanelles disaster in 1915, the Home Secretary who crushed the General Strike in 1926, the Colonial Secretary who rode with T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell at the Pyramids, the Chancellor who took the country back to the Gold Standard and then spent more than ten years in the political wilderness – and who, finally, was summoned to save his country in 1940.
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
£35.00Winston Churchill dominates our view of the history of Britain in the twentieth century – the brash, brave and ambitious young aristocrat who sought out danger in late Victorian wars, the mercurial First Lord of the Admiralty who was responsible for the Dardanelles disaster in 1915, the Home Secretary who crushed the General Strike in 1926, the Colonial Secretary who rode with T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell at the Pyramids, the Chancellor who took the country back to the Gold Standard and then spent more than ten years in the political wilderness – and who, finally, was summoned to save his country in 1940.
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Napoleon the Great
£18.99It has become all too common for Napoleon Bonaparte’s biographers to approach him as a figure to be reviled, bent on world domination, practically a proto-Hitler. Here, after years of study extending even to visits paid to St Helena and 53 of Napoleon’s 56 battlefields, Andrew Roberts has created a true portrait of the mind, the life, the military, and above all political genius of a fundamentally constructive ruler.
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Napoleon The Great
£30.00It has become all too common for Napoleon Bonaparte’s biographers to approach him as a figure to be reviled, bent on world domination, practically a proto-Hitler. Here, after years of study extending even to visits paid to St Helena and 53 of Napoleon’s 56 battlefields, Andrew Roberts has created a true portrait of the mind, the life, the military, and above all political genius of a fundamentally constructive ruler.