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A History and Guide to the Cricket World Cup by Andrew Roberts
Category: Sport
For the first time in 20 years, the Cricket World Cup returns to England and Wales and with the England team close to the top of the one day rankings, expectation and enthusiasm for this event is bound to be high.Each of the eleven tournaments have been written up to include records of matches and indiv ...Show more
A History of English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 by Andrew Roberts
Category: Non-Fiction
A magisterial history inspired by Winston Churchill's famous opus, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 is an engrossing account of the twentieth century, with a unique perspective on our turbulent times. In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his History of the English-Spea ...Show more
Art of War - Great Commanders of th by Andrew Roberts
Category: Military
Which was the most brilliant of Napoleon's victories? How close did the Duke of Wellington come to losing the battle of Waterloo? What qualities made 'Stonewall' Jackson a battlefield commander of genius? What tactics did Montgomery employ to defeat Rommel at Alamein? How did General Giap's Viet Minh tr ...Show more
Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies: The Prickly Battle (Book 4) by ANDREW HANSEN ; ROBERTS, JESSICA
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Bab Sharkey Ser.
The Chaser's Andrew Hansen teams up again with Jessica Roberts for the fourth hilarious adventure in the Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies series!From the bonkers brain of celebrated Australian comedian Andrew Hansen and the hilarious head of Jessica Roberts comes Bab Sharkey's fourth laugh-out-loud bo ...Show more
Churchill, Master and Commander - Winston Churchill at War 1895-1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones; Andrew Roberts (Foreword by)
Category: Biography
An engaging and detailed study of Winston Churchill's career as a military commander, from his early experiences in Britain's colonial wars, through his battlefield experience in World War I, to his strategic command in World War II. This book examines how in high office he got it both right and wrong.F ...Show more
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
Category: Biography
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new so ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
Category: Military
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
Elegy : The First Day on the Somme by Andrew Roberts
Category: Military
On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly im ...Show more
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
Category: Biography
George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of ...Show more
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
Category: History
Andrew Roberts's magnificent new biography 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. He was a de ...Show more
Great Commanders of the Ancient World 1479BC - 453AD by Andrew Roberts
Category: History | Series: Art of War
Which was the most brilliant of Hannibal's three crushing defeats of Roman armies? What tactics did Julius Caesar employ to defeat Pompey at Pharsalus? How was Alexander the Great able to command sufficient loyalty from his troops to lead them across half of the Asian landmass in search of new territori ...Show more
Great Commanders of the Early Modern World 1567-1865 by Andrew Roberts
Category: History | Series: Art of War
What qualities made the Duke of Wellington a strategic genius? How did Oliver Cromwell, a gentleman farmer create an army that overthrew a king and changed the course of British history? Why was Simon Bolivar able to overcome early reverses to become the greatest figure in the Latin American struggle ag ...Show more