Bücher von Andrew Roberts

From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of NapoleonIt 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, and the military and above all political genius of a fundamentally constructive ruler. This is the Napoleon, Roberts reminds us, whose peacetime activity produced countless indispensable civic innovations - and whose Napoleonic Code provided the blueprint for civil law systems still in use around the world today.It is one of the greatest lives in world history, which here has found its ideal biographer. The sheer enjoyment which this book will give anyone who loves history is enormous.Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner, the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and The Storm of War, which reached No. 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.

"Masterly. . . . Roberts's portrait of the relationship between the four men who made Allied strategy through the war years is a triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." --Max Hastings, The New York Review of Books An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong-minded, and each was certain that only he knew best how to win the war. Andrew Roberts, "Britain's finest contemporary military historian" (The Economist), traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often-explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations, and he helps us to appreciate the motives and imperatives of these key leaders as they worked tirelessly in the monumental struggle to destroy Nazism.

Der Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs liegt achtzig Jahre zurück, doch die Folgen sind bis heute spürbar. Der britische Historiker Andrew Roberts hat Ursachen und Verlauf des globalen Kriegs neu erzählt. Seine dichte, quellennahe Darstellung wurde als Meisterwerk gerühmt, das große Anschaulichkeit im Detail mit einem souveränen Überblick über die zahlreichen Kriegsschauplätze verbindet und die Leser von der ersten Seite an fesselt. Andrew Roberts folgt der Frage, warum die Achsenmächte den Krieg verloren: tatsächlich durch strategische Fehler und aus ideologischer Verblendung oder wegen der Übermacht der Alliierten? Im Mittelpunkt steht die Militärgeschichte mit ihren Operationen und Schlachten zu Land, zu Wasser und in der Luft sowie dem Wettlauf der Rüstungsproduktion und Informationsbeschaffung. Dabei gelingtes ihm, alle Kriegsschauplätze - in Europa, Afrika und Asien, im Atlantik und Pazifik - gleichberechtigt darzustellen. Roberts hat zahlreiche Schlachtfelder besucht, was seiner Darstellung eine mitreißende Anschaulichkeit verleiht. Docher verliert sich nie im Sog der Ereignisse, sondern behält die großen Zusammenhänge im Auge und wechselt virtuos zwischen den Ebenen: von den Politikern und Generälen über die Soldaten in Schützengräben und Sandstürmen bis hin zuden unzähligen Opfern dieses größten Krieges aller Zeiten.

This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry. -- .

How does democracy work in the new democracies of Eastern Europe? Do the people actually rule as one would expect in a democracy or do the legacies of communism and the constraints of the transition weaken popular control? This book presents a framework for conceptualizing and measuring democratic quality and applies this framework to multiple countries and policy areas in the region. It defines democratic quality as the degree to which citizens are able to hold leaders accountable for their performance and keep policy close to their preferences. Its surprising conclusion, drawn from large-N statistical analyses and small-N case studies, is that citizens exercise considerable control over their rulers in Eastern European democracies. Despite facing difficult economic circumstances and an unfavorable inheritance from communism, these countries rapidly constructed relatively high-quality democracies.