Churchill biographer, award-winning author Andrew Roberts to speak at Texas State

<div class="newscaption">Andrew Roberts <a href="http://www.nancyellison.com/">(Image credit: Nancy Ellison Photography)</a></div>

Andrew Roberts, author of the acclaimed biography Churchill: Walking with Destiny, will deliver a lecture and answer questions at Texas State University on Wednesday, April 10.

The lecture, sponsored by the Department of History and Department of Political Science, will be at 7 p.m. in the Alkek Teaching Theater. A book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public. 

Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "a brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope," Churchill incorporates Roberts' exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs from Churchill’s contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts – in a first for a Churchill biographer – to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allowed Roberts to examine Churchill's life in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling the man's legendary drive.

Roberts is the bestselling author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War; Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945; Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble; and Napoleon: A Life, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and a finalist for the Plutarch Award. He has won many other prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize and the British Army Military Book of the Year, and frequently writes for The Wall Street Journal. He lives in London and often lectures in New York.