Martin Gilbert
Sir Martin Gilbert (born October 25 , 1936 in London ) is a British historian and biographer and author of over seventy books on a range of historical subjects. He is primarily known as the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill , British Prime Minster during World War Two and for his books on the Holocaust and Jewish history.
He studied modern history at Magdalen College , Oxford , graduating in 1960 with a BA . One of his professors at Oxford was A. J. P. Taylor . He was knighted in 1995 for services to British history and international relations. He lives in London and since 2002 has been a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College , Michigan .
Books
Biography of Winston Churchill
(volumes one and two were written by Churchill's son Randolph Churchill )
Winston S Churchill: Volume Three: The Challenge of War: 1914-1916 , (1971 )
Winston S Churchill: Volume Four: World in Torment 1917-1922 , (1975 )
Winston S Churchill: Volume Five: The Coming of War 1922-1939 , (1979 )
Winston S Churchill: Volume Six: Finest Hour 1939-1941 , (1983 )
Winston S Churchill: Volume Seven: Road to Victory 1941-1945 , (1986 )
Winston S Churchill: Volume Eight: Never Despair 1945-1965 , (1988 )
Companion Volumes to Biography
Winston S Churchill: Volume Three, Documents (in two volumes), (1972 )
Winston S Churchill: Volume Four, Documents (in three volumes), (1977 )
Winston S Churchill, The Exchequer Years, 1922-1929, Documents , (1979 )
Winston S Churchill, The Wilderness Years, 1929-1935, Documents , (1981 )
Winston S Churchill, The Coming of War, 1936-1939, Documents , (1982 )
Other books on Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill , (1966 ), a short biography for use in Schools
Churchill: Great Lives Observed , (1967 )
Churchill: A Photographic Portrait , (1974 )
Churchill: An Illustrated Biography , (1979 )
Churchill's Political Philosophy , (1981 )
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years , (1981 )
Churchill, A Life , (1991 )
In Search of Churchill , (1994 )
Winston Churchill and Emery Reves, Correspondence 1937-1964 (editor), (1997 )
The Churchill War Papers, Volume One: Winston S Churchill, 'At The Admiralty': September 1939-May 1940 , (1993 )
The Churchill War Papers, Volume Two: Winston S Churchill, 'Never Surrender': May-December 1940 , (1995 )
The Churchill War Papers, Volume Three: Winston S Churchill, 'The Ever-Widening War': 1941 , (2000 )
Churchill at War: His 'Finest Hour' in Photographs, 1940-1945 , (2003 )
Winston Churchill's War Leadership
Other biographies and history books
Britain and Germany Between the Wars (editor), (1964 )
The Appeasers (with Richard Gott), (1965 )
The European Powers 1900-1945 , (1965 )
Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of Lord Allen of Hurtwood (editor), (1965 )
Recent History Atlas, 1860-1960 , (1965 )
The Roots of Appeasement , (1966 )
Servant of India (editor), (1966 ), A Study of Imperial Rule in India from 1905-1910 as told through the correspondence and diaries of Sir James Dunlop-Smith, Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India
Lloyd George: Great Lives Observed (editor), (1968 )
British History Atlas , (1968 )
American History Atlas , (1968 )
Jewish History Atlas , (1969 )
The Second World War , (1970 ), for use in schools
First World War Atlas , (1971 )
Russian History Atlas , (1972 )
Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat, 1869-1941 , (1973 )
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Its History in Maps , (1974 )
The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps , (1976 )
The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps and Photographs , (1976 )
Jerusalem Illustrated History Atlas , (1977 )
Exile and Return: The Emergence of Jewish Statehood , (1978 )
The Holocaust, Maps and Photographs , (1978 ), for use in schools
Final Journey: The Fate of the Jews of Nazi Europe , (1979 )
Children's Illustrated Bible Atlas , (1979 )
Aushwitz and the Allies , (1981 )
Atlas of the Holocaust , (1982 )
Jews of Hope, The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today , (1984 )
Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City , (1985 )
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy , (1986 )
Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time , (1986 )
The Second World War , (1989 )
Atlas Of British Charities , (1993 )
The Day the War Ended: May 8 1945 , (1995 )
Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century , (1996 )
The Boys, Triumph Over Adversity , (1996 )
First World War , (2002 )
A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume One: 1900-1933 , (1997 )
Holocaust Journey: Travelling in Search of the Past , (1997 )
Israel, A History , (1998 )
A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Two, 1933-1951 , (1999 )
A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Three, 1952-1999 (1999 )
Never Again': A History of the Holocaust , (2000 )
From The Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the Twentieth Century , (2001 )
History of the Twentieth Century , (2001 ), condensed version of his three volume history
Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and their Faith , (2002 )
The Righteous: The Unsung Heros of the Holocaust , (2002 )
D-Day , (2004 )
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