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Andrew Roberts on The Habits of Churchill, Lessons from Napoleon, and The Holy Fire Inside Great Leaders

    The Tim Ferriss Show | 17 October 2024 | 1h 27m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
    Interview with Andrew Roberts exploring his personal history, his thoughts on Winston Churchill and Napoleon Bonaparte, his views on leadership and history, his writing process, and his thoughts on the state of historical study. Draws from his books Napoleon: A Life, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, and Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza.

    Andrew Roberts – Leading Historian on Warfare from Napoleon to Ukraine

      Dwarkesh Podcast | 22 November 2023 | 1h 18m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
      Interview with Andrew Roberts about his books. Discusses Churchill the applied historian; Napoleon the startup founder; why Nazi ideology cost Hitler WW2; drones, reconnaissance, and other aspects of the future of war; Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Ukraine, & Taiwan.

      Andrew Roberts on Churchill and the Craft of Biography

        EconTalk | 26 August 2019 | 1h 10m | Listen Later | iTunes
        Interview with Andrew Roberts about the life of Winston Churchill and the art of biography. How did Churchill deal with the mistakes he inevitably made in a long career? Was he prescient or just the right man in the right place at the right time? Was he an alcoholic? Did he suffer from depression? Drawing on his biography of Churchill, Andrew Roberts answers these and other questions in this wide-ranging conversation that includes a discussion of the mechanics of writing a 1000 page book on a man who has had over 1000 biographies written about him already.