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Uncommon Knowledge · 2026-09-08 · 64 min · 10,441 words

Why Churchill Still Matters: Andrew Roberts on Great Men in History

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Great men in history. Winston Churchill And a question. Where are the great figures today? Historian Andrew Roberts on Uncommon Knowledge

No. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. A graduate of Gonville and Keys at Cambridge and Andrew Roberts has established himself as a major historian in the words of Victor Davis Hansen I'm quoting Victor, the finest biographer writing in English.

Lord Roberts has published some twenty books, including biographies of Lord Salisbury, King George III, and Napoleon. He may be best known for his twenty eighteen volume, Churchill. Walking with destiny. Now widely considered. the finest one volume work on the great man.

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