id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7792 Andrew Roberts (historian) - Wikipedia .html text/html 5674 570 69 Masters and Commanders describes how four figures shaped the strategy of the West during the Second World War. It was published in November, 2008 and won the International Churchill Society Book Award and was shortlisted for two other military history book prizes. 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.[36] 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.[37] 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.[38][39] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7792.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7792.txt