Andrew Roberts

“One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".”

— Andrew Roberts

“As one Finn put it after the battle of Kuhmo, ‘There were more Russians than we had bullets.”

— Andrew Roberts

“They looked like scarecrows,’ Slim said of his troops. ‘But they looked like soldiers, too.’ He also recalled the heart-rending sight of…

— Andrew Roberts

“Grossly to oversimplify the contributions made by the three leading members of the Grand Alliance in the Second World War, if Britain…

— Andrew Roberts

“It was on 7 March 1936 that Hitler comprehensivelyviolated the Versailles Treaty by sending troops intothe industrial region of the Rhineland, which…

— Andrew Roberts

“The documentary and anecdotal evidence is overwhelming and indisputable; the Red Army, which had behaved so heroically on the battlefield, raped the…

— Andrew Roberts

“Hitler had done quite enough in his career to prove how utterly untrustworthy he was long before the Nazi–Soviet Pact was signed…

— Andrew Roberts

“Certainly the fighting around the huge water-tanks on the hillside was continuous for 112 days from the second half of September to…

— Andrew Roberts

“If you make war,’ he would say to General d’Hédouville in December 1799, ‘wage it with energy and severity; it is the…

— Andrew Roberts

What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely…

— Andrew Roberts

“and said that these councils were only ever resorted to as ‘a cowardly proceeding’ intended to distribute blame.”

— Andrew Roberts

“ministry of justice”

— Andrew Roberts

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly…

— Andrew Roberts

With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans…

— Andrew Roberts

“On THE DECSIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS 109 The epic struggle between the Spitfire and the Messerschmitt 109 upon which so much of…

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“The statistics are unequivocal: up until the end of 1944, on a man-for-man basis, the Germans inflicted between 20 and 50 per…

— Andrew Roberts

“At one dinner he [George Smith Patton] toasted his officers’ wives with the words: ‘My, what pretty widows you’re going to make.”

— Andrew Roberts

“Attempting to escape across the Swiss border on 26 April 1945, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci, her brother Marcello and fifteen…

— Andrew Roberts

“The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents…

— Andrew Roberts

“Rule one on page one of the book of war, is: “Do not march on Moscow.” ’ Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, House…

— Andrew Roberts

“Just as we do not today differentiate between the Roman Republic and the imperial period of the Julio-Claudians when we think of…

— Andrew Roberts

“Among Berthier’s many qualities was a diplomatic nature so finely attuned that he somehow managed to persuade his wife, the Duchess Maria…

— Andrew Roberts

“Sergeant Tony Aubrey of 8 Column recalled how one soldier, ‘whose feet were in a very bad state, made up his mind…

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“Patton’s personality was immense, but his battlefield achievements matched it. ‘I want you men to remember that no bastard ever won a…

— Andrew Roberts

“Nothing short of military defeat demoralizes a country so totally as hyper-inflation, and the Directory,”

— Andrew Roberts