giant political pamphlet larded with its author's prejudices". More generally, Reba Soffer described him in 2009 as "devoted ... to public, polemical conservatism as well as to historical revisionism". One claim made by Roberts in A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 was that Harvard historian Caroline Elkins had committed "blood libels" in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Imperial Reckoning. Elkins was subsequently vindicated when files released by the National Archives showed that abuses were described as "distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia" by the Solicitor General of the time. The Foreign Secretary William Hague subsequently announced compensation for the first round of victims with statements that the British government "recognises that Kenyans were subjected to torture and other forms of ill-treatment" and "sincerely regrets that these abuses took place" during the Kenya Emergency. Journalist Johann Hari has stated that Roberts' writings defended acts such as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the Second Boer War concentration camps for Afrikaners during the Second Boer War, and mass internment in Northern Ireland (Operation Demetrius). Hari also wrote that Roberts made a speech at the expatriate South African Springbok Club, which flies the apartheid-era flag of South Africa and calls for "the re-establishment of civilised rule throughout the African continent". Roberts said that he did not realise the Springbok Club was racist when he took on the speaking engagement. See also List of alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge List of Wolfson History Prize winners Publications Books authored by Roberts The Holy Fox: A Biography of Lord Halifax, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991 . Eminent Churchillians, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994 ; Simon & Schuster, 1994, The Aachen Memorandum, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995 . Salisbury: Victorian Titan, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999, The House of Windsor, Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2000, . Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003, What Might Have Been, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004, A History of the English Speaking Peoples since 1900, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West (2008), Allen Lane, (UK edition); Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945 (2009), Harper, (US edition). online The Art of War: Great Commanders of the Ancient and Medieval World, Quercus, 2008, The Art of War: Great Commanders of the