Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2024-10-17
Books mentioned on #773: Andrew Roberts on The Habits of Churchill, Lessons from Napoleon, and The Holy Fire Inside Great Leaders
Andrew Roberts has written twenty books, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages and have won thirteen literary prizes.
Tim Ferriss recommended My Early Life by Winston Churchill. Andrew Roberts recommended The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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My Early Life
My Early Life by Winston Churchill is an engaging and witty autobiographical account detailing the British statesman's formative years, military adventures, and early political career.
Recommended“instead of biographies I'd like to ask about an autobiography so I it's my impression that you recommend that young people read my early life yeah and that there are life lessons contained within it that perhaps might help young people”
Where to get it
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The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill is the first volume of the author's celebrated war memoirs, chronicling the escalating threats and political miscalculations that led to the Second World War.
Recommended“the phrase comes from his remark in the last chapter of last few pages of his War Memoirs the first volume of his War Memoirs the Gathering storm wonderful book”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Conflict
“the is it most recent conflict that's a book I wrote with David trus and of course him being a general who's commanded armies of over 160,000 in both Iraq and Afghanistan has been so fascinating intellectually for me the subtitle for folks just so they have that the evolution of warfare from 1945 to Ukraine well it's now actually”