Title: A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume One: 1900-1933 Publishing data: UK (HarperCollins); USA (William Morrow), hardback, 1997; paperback, 1998 Pages: 927 Summary: A comprehensive history of the first thirty-three years of the twentieth century, starting with the intervention of the Great Powers (including Britain, Germany and the United States) in China, and closing with Roosevelt as the newly-elected President of the United States and the inauguration of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. The narrative moves from Continent to Continent and country to country, conveying the dramas, struggles and achievements of nations and individuals, as well as the chronicling the diseases and natural disasters of the first third of the century, the advance of science and medicine, wars, revolutions and political upheavals. Translations: German Notes About This Book: 53 photographs, 29 maps prepared specially by the author for this volume.8-page bibliography of works cited. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Three, 1952-1999 volume two. Subtitle in the UK: Challenge to Civilization Publishing data: UK (HarperCollins); USA (William Morrow), hardback, 1998, hardback; UK, USA, paperback, 1999 Pages: 1,072 Summary: A comprehensive history of the second half of the twentieth century, combining international and national events, natural disasters, health and disease, the activities and aspirations of groups and individuals, the rise and fall of the Cold War, the end of the European Empires and the emergence of new nations, the war in Vietnam, the emergence of China, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the ending of apartheid, and the challenges of global communication, the spread of affluence and the curse of poverty, environmental dangers, and scientific and medical advances. Translations: (contracted for) Polish Notes About This Book: 52 photographs, 36 maps prepared by the 13-page bibliography of works consulted. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Two, 1933-1951 Publishing data: UK (HarperCollins): USA (William Morrow), hardback, 1999; UK, USA paperback, 2000 Pages: 1,050 Summary: The story of the middle years of the twentieth century, starting with the rise of dictatorial and military regimes in Europe and Asia, spanning the Second World War, and culminating in the establishment of the Iron Curtain and the East-West divide. Examines, among other conflicts, the Japanese invasion of China, the Spanish Civil War, the long civil struggles in China, the use of the atom bomb, the start of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade, and the Korean War. Science and medicine, civic advances, the final era of the Western Empires, apartheid in South Africa, and life under Communism, all have their place in the detailed panorama of those years. Translations: (contracted for) Polish Notes About This Book: 50 photographs; 17-page bibliography of works consulted. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Atlas of American History Publishing data: UK/USA, 1968 (revised editions, 1970, 1994 and, 2002, 4th edition, published by Routledge), hardback and paperback. Pages: 149 maps (fourth, 2003, edition) Summary: A map history of the United States from the first settlements and first explorations to the twenty-first century. Notes About This Book: One of seven of Martin Gilbert's historical atlases that are in print. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Atlas Of British Charities Publishing data: UK (Heathside), 1993. Paperback. Pages: 104 Summary: 72 maps showing the geographic range and activities of more than a hundred British charities, both large and small, in Britain and overseas. Notes About This Book: A 6-page preface, 3-page bibliography, 6-page appendix of useful charity addresses. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Atlas of British History Publishing data: UK/USA, 1968 (revised 1993, third edition, Routledge, 2003), hardback and paperback. Pages: First edition, 118 maps, second edition, 144 maps, third edition, 157 maps. Summary: A map history of Britain from the time of the Celts and the Romans to the twenty-first century. Notes About This Book: One of seven of Martin Gilbert's historical atlases that are in print. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Atlas of Jewish History Publishing data: UK/USA, 1969 (, further editions, 1976, 1985, 1992 and 1993; sixth edition, Routledge, 2003), hardback and paperback Pages: 137 maps Summary: A comprehensive map history of the Jews from Biblical times to the twenty-first century. Translations: Dutch, French, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Hebrew, Chinese, Russian. Notes About This Book: Four-page bibliography. One of seven of Martin Gilbert's historical atlases that are in print. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Atlas of Russian History Publishing data: UK/ USA, 1972, hardback and paperback (revised, updated editions, 1994, 2002, 3rd edition, Routledge) Pages: 166 maps (third, 2002 edition). Summary: A comprehensive map history of Russia from the earliest Slav settlements and Asian migrations to the fall of Communism and the post-Communist era. Translations: Japanese Notes About This Book: Was also published in 1979 as a two-volume set, both hardback and paperback, entitled Imperial Russian History Atlas and Soviet History Atlas. both the two-volume and the one-volume editions contain a bibliography of works consulted, and a fully itemised index. One of seven of Martin Gilbert's historical atlases that are in print. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Publishing data: UK/USA, 1974 (9th edition, Routledge, 2008) Pages: 205 maps Summary: A map history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from the end of the nineteenth century to the start of the twenty-first century. Among the most recent maps are suicide bombings, the peace process after the death of Arafat, and the growing number of Israeli-Palestinian joint ventures. Translations: Hebrew Notes About This Book: Updated every few years to include the most recent negotiations and developments. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Atlas of the Holocaust (currently The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust) Publishing data: UK/USA, 1982; second edition, 1994; third (Routledge) edition, 2002. Hardback and paperback. Pages: 282 Summary: A comprehensive map history of the fate of the Jews from the rise of Hitler until the liberation of the camps; 317 maps of countries and regions, refugees, slave labour camp zones, deportations, resistance, death marches, and the fate of individuals. Translations: German, French, Japanese, Hebrew Notes About This Book: The 317 maps are accompanied by a text, 41 illustrations, and an 8-page bibliography of sources consulted. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Atlas of the Second World War Publishing data: Routledge; 1 edition (August 26, 2009) (Paperback) Pages: 310 Summary: A wide-ranging graphic history - in maps - of the Second World War, covering all the war fronts, the war on land, at sea and in the air, the fate of prisoners of war and civilians, espionage and deception, resistance, flight and expulsion, persecution, refugees, and the human cost of the war. Notes About This Book: This new paperback edition includes several updates to existing maps, as well as ten new maps, specially drawn for this edition. The new maps include examinations of Japanese- American and African- American soldiers serving with the United States Army, British women special agents, Belgium at War, and the German occupation of the Channel Islands. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Aushwitz and the Allies Publishing data: UK (Michael Joseph); USA (Holt), 198l,hardback and paperback 2nd US edition, paperback, 1989, 3rd UK edition (Pimlico), paperback, 2000. Pages: 368 Summary: A documented study of what was known about the Holocaust, and when, and how the Allies responded - or failed to respond. Tells the story of the five escapees from Auschwitz - four Jews and one Christian Pole - who brought the news of the camp to the West, and the impact that their news created. Translations: German, Hebrew Notes About This Book: 20 maps prepared for the author for this volume, including Allied bombing routes in the Auschwitz region; 34 photographs, many published here for the first time; 14-pages of biographical notes. All source materials footnoted at the bottom of the page where the document is cited. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Britain and Germany Between the Wars (editor) Publishing data: UK (Longmans), 1964, paperback; reprinted 1977 Pages: 179 Summary: A selection of documents relating to British foreign policy between 1919 and 1939. Published in the series 'Problems and Perspective in History' Notes About This Book: Contains a 'Biographical Sketches' section, a bibliography, and five maps specially prepared by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Children's Illustrated Bible Atlas Publishing data: UK (W.H. Allen), 1979,hardback. Re-issued, in paperback 1982. Pages: 56 Summary: A journey through the lands of the Bible, with maps showing different periods and stories in the Old and New Testaments, and photographs showing the region today. Notes About This Book: Preface, five parts each with an introductory texts; 29 colour maps prepared by the author, and 35 colour photographs, taken by the author, who was accompanied on the journey through the Holy Land by his daughter Natalie, who advised on where to take photographs. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Churchill and America Publishing data: Free Press (USA), Simon and Schuster (UK), McLelland and Stewart (Canada), hardback Pages: 528 Summary: The story of Churchill's lifelong relationship with the United States of America, through good times and bad, amid severe disagreements and the closest of harmonies. Based on Churchill's private archive, government archives in Britain and the United States, ifty-two other archival sources, and interviews conducted by the author. Notes About This Book: Fourteen maps compiled by the author. Sixty photographs. Source references at the bottom of each page. The bibliography includes a listing of thirty-five articles by Churchill in order of publication, and thirty-nine newspapers and magazines cited. Itemized index compiled by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Churchill and the Jews Publishing data: Simon and Schuster, UK (2 June 2007); McLelland and Stewart, Canada (26 June 2007); Holt, USA (25 October 2007) Pages: 359 Summary: The story of Churchill’s long relationship with Jews and Zionism; his often unpopular support for the Jewish National Home in Palestine; his wartime efforts to help the Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe; his post-war support for the State of Israel; his friendship with individual Jews; and his understanding of Jewish communal and national aspirations Notes About This Book: Includes 30 photographs, 13 specially drawn maps, a 5-page bibliography, and a 28-page itemized index compiled by the author Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Churchill at War: His 'Finest Hour' in Photographs, 1940-1945 Publishing data: UK (Carlton); and USA (Norton), 2003, hardback; UK paperback (Carlton, Imperial War Museum), 2008. Pages: 160 pages, 195 photographs Summary: A visual look at Churchill during his wartime premiership, at work, speaking, with his colleagues, visiting Britain's bombed cities, with British troops in Britain and in the war zones, travelling to the United States and the Soviet Union, at conferences overseas, including Casablanca, Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam. Notes About This Book: Year-by-year chapter introductions by the author; 111 photographs. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Churchill, A Life Publishing data: UK (Heinemann); USA (Holt), 1991; also paperback. UK 6th printing, 2000; US 14th printing, 2003. Pages: 1066 Summary: A single-volume biography of Churchill, bringing together all the archival and interview work done by the author during the previous twenty-three years. Highlights Churchill's personal life, his character, his ambitions, his education and youth, his early days as a soldier and a journalist, his place in the political spectrum, his parliamentary contribution to social reform and foreign, imperial and defence policy, his struggles and his achievements during seven decades, his war leadership - all seen through his eyes, the eyes of his friends and contemporaries, and the eyes of his critics and opponents. Translations: Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese Notes About This Book: 142 photographs; 28 maps specially prepared for this volume by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Churchill, A Life: pocket book Publishing data: UK (Mandarin), 1993. Paperback. Pages: 734 Summary: A reduced version of Churchill: A Life, prepared by the author, with the same balance of the personal and the political. Notes About This Book: 4-page chronology of Churchill's life; 70 photographs; 28 maps prepared by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Churchill: A Photographic Portrait Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1974 (re-issued with expanded captions, 1988) reprinted as a UK paperback, 1993, 1999 and 2003. Pages: 310 Summary: The extended captions to the photographs and cartoons include many extracts from Churchill's letters and speeches. 364 photographs, many of them published here for the first time, collected by Martin Gilbert from many archives and private collections during his first six years as Churchill Biographer. Notes About This Book: Eight-page list of sources. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Churchill: An Illustrated Biography Publishing data: UK (Marks and Spencer 1979); 2nd edition (Chancellor Press), 1983, both hardback. Pages: 192 Summary: Churchill's life in text, photographs and captions. Notes About This Book: 198 illustrations, many in colour, including facsimile Churchill letters and instructions, an 'Action This Day' label, cartoons, portraits, book jackets, and his study at Chartwell. One-page illustration acknowledgements, including many from private collections. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Churchill: Great Lives Observed (editor) Publishing data: USA (Prentice Hall), 1967, hardback and paperback Pages: 180 Summary: A documentary study of Churchill's career, part one through his own words, part two through the words of his contemporaries, part three, in retrospect. Notes About This Book: Part of the Prentice-Hall Great Lives Observed series. Introduction and afterword by the author. Contains a three-page bibliographical note. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Churchill's Political Philosophy Publishing data: UK (Oxford University Press), 198l. Hardback Pages: 119 Summary: A study of Churchill's political beliefs and ideals, and their practical applications in the fifty-five years during which, for long periods, he was in Parliament and government. Notes About This Book: The printed version of three lectures given by Martin Gilbert for the British Academy Thank-Offering to Britain Lectures. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: D-Day Publishing data: USA and UK (Wiley), 2004, hardback; 2008, paperback Pages: 220 Summary: A study of the origins of the D-Day Normandy landings of 6 June 1944, the day itself, and its aftermath, including the role of the Enigma/Ultra secret, and the Allied deception plans. Every aspect of the preparations is examined, as is each phase of the landings themselves, in the air, at sea and on land. Many personal stories of those who participated in the planning and execution of the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. Notes About This Book: Includes a nine-page itemized index, a four-page bibliography of works consulted, and twenty-seven maps specially drawn for this book, including maps covering the Allied deception plans. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Exile and Return: The Emergence of Jewish Statehood (American sub-title, 'The Struggle for a Jewish Homeland') Publishing data: UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Lippincott), 1978; UK paperback, 1979. Pages: 364 Summary: A narrative study of the Jewish national movement from the early Zionists in the nineteenth century to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Notes About This Book: A list of the post-1948 careers of the main protagonists; a list of archival sources cited; a bibliography of works consulted; 16 photographs; 28 maps specially prepared by the author for this volume. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Final Journey: The Fate of the Jews of Nazi Europe Publishing data: UK (George Allen and Unwin); USA (Mayflower Books), 1979, hardback. Pages: 224 Summary: Twenty-two episodes of the Holocaust, centring around journeys, and described using documentary evidence of the survivors of those journeys, or the records of those who organised or witnessed them. Translations: Hebrew, Dutch Notes About This Book: 84 photographs, many of them never published for the first time; 6 facsimile documents, 24 pages of maps specially prepared by the author for this volume; 2-page acknowledgments and sources. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: First World War Publishing data: UK (HarperCollins); USA (Holt), 5th UK printing, 2002, 12th USA printing, 2003 Pages: 616 Summary: A comprehensive history of the First World War which covers every battlefront, every nation at war, the fighting on land, at sea and in the air, the human suffering, the story of individuals, the heroism and the horror. Presents both a global and personal dimension. A testimony to the life, and death, of millions of men and women. The final chapters, covering peacemaking, remembrance, and memory, look at the impact of the war on the rest of the century that was to follow. Translations: German, Italian. Notes About This Book: The opening 34 pages portray the march to war. The author weaves the poetry of the war into the unfolding narrative. 80 photographs; a 10-page bibliography; 31 maps specially prepared by the author; a list of the estimated of the war dead of the principal belligerents. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: First World War Atlas Publishing data: UK/USA, 197l, hardback and paperback (revised and enlarged edition, 1994; fourth Routledge edition, 2008) Pages: 212 pages (including 173 maps) Summary: A comprehensive map history of the First World War, covering in maps the origins of the war, the war fronts, the war at sea and in the air, bombing, court-martial executions, diplomacy, economic considerations, war debts, and the post-war settlement. Each of the eight wartime sections introduced by a war poem; the introductory and final sections by a prose quotation. Notes About This Book: Introduction by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Ten-page bibliography. One of nine of Martin Gilbert's historical atlases that are in print. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: From The Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the Twentieth Century. Published in the USA as The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History. Publishing data: UK (Cassel); USA (Schocken), hardback, 2001 Pages: 376 Summary: An illustrated history of the Jews in the twentieth century, covering the Ashkenazi and Sephardi worlds, Zionism and Israel, the Holocaust, and Jewish achievements and creativity worldwide. A celebration of Jewish life. Translations: German, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Russian Notes About This Book: Photographs from 62 public and private archives, researched by Sarah Jackson and Franziska Payer Crockett Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Historical Atlas of Jerusalem Publishing data: 1977, UK and USA, hardback; third, revised edition, Vallentine Mitchell,1994; fourth, expanded edition, Routledge, 2008. Pages: 136 Summary: A map history of the city of Jerusalem from ancient times until the twentieth century. Translations: Spanish Notes About This Book: 69 maps and 119 illustrations. Bibliography of works consulted. List of sources for the illustrations. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: History of the Twentieth Century (single volume) Publishing data: UK (HarperCollins); USA (William Morrow), hardback, 2001; UK, USA, paperback, 2002 Pages: 783 Summary: The author's reduction of his 3,049-page three-volume work, A History of the Twentieth Century. From the author's introduction: 'Some of humanity's greatest achievements took place in the twentieth century, and some of its worst excesses. It was a century of improvement in the quality of life for millions of people, yet also a century of decline in many parts of the globe.' Notes About This Book: 55 photographs, 26 maps Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Holocaust Journey: Travelling in Search of the Past Publishing data: UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Columbia University Press) hardback, 1997; UK/USA paperback, 1998 Pages: 480 Summary: The diary of a fourteen-day journey taken by the author with his MA students at University College, London, to some of the towns, camps and regions in which the Holocaust had been perpetrated. Includes the full text of the readings at each stage of the journey, from wartime documents, letters and diaries. Translations: Croatian Notes About This Book: 56 photographs taken by the author during the journey; 54 maps of the journey, prepared by the author; 4-page bibliography of works consulted and quoted on the journey; Epilogue 'Remembering the Past'. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: In Search of Churchill Publishing data: UK (HarperCollins); USA (John Wiley), 1994, hardback and paperback. US reprint, 2003. Pages: 338 Summary: Martin Gilbert's personal story of his work as a research assistant to Churchill's son Randolph from 1962 to 1968, and his work after Randolph Churchill's death in 1968 as his successor as Churchill biographer. Among the chapters is one on Churchill the painter, one on the Dardanelles, and one on Churchill's county home, Chartwell. Notes About This Book: 37 photographs, 5 of them taken by the author's son David; 7 maps prepared by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Israel, A History Publishing data: UK (Transworld); USA (Doubleday), 1998, hardback; 1999, paperback; second, revised edition, UK paperback (Transworld), 2008; US paperback (HarperCollins), 2008; Canadian paperback (Key Porter), 2008. Pages: 750 Summary: Examines the history of the Zionist movement and modern Jewish nationalism from the mid-nineteenth century to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and charts the first fifty years of the history of the State of Israel. Conflict and wars, achievement and creativity, are seen through the eyes of the leading personalities and the men and women who committed their lives to turn Theodor Herzl's dream into a reality. Follows the agreements, treaties, proposals and negotiations of the first fifty years of statehood. Probes the ideals and the realities of statehood. Translations: Hungarian, Bulgarian Notes About This Book: 72 photographs, 43 maps compiled by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century Publishing data: UK (Chatto and Windus); USA (John Wiley), 1996; hardback and paperback. Pages: 400 Summary: A history of the city of Jerusalem under Turkish, British, Jordanian and Israeli rule. Looks at the city's politics and armed conflicts, terror and hardships, growth and daily life, commerce and creativity, architecture, personalities, and religious, ethnic and national groups. Translations: Japanese Notes About This Book: 34 photographs, 13 maps specially prepared by the author, 7 pages of sources cited by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City Publishing data: UK (Chatto and Windus); USA (Elisabeth Sifton Books-Viking), 1985 Pages: 238 Summary: A social and political and history of Jerusalem - in its Jewish, Muslim, Christian Ottoman and European aspects - during the half-century from 1838 to 1898. Notes About This Book: Many extracts from contemporary diaries and letters, 133 photographs (including some of the earliest taken in Jerusalem), 11 maps specially prepared for this volume by the author; 7-page bibliography of works consulted. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Jews of Hope, The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today Publishing data: UK (Macmillan), USA (Elisabeth Sifton Books-Viking) 1984; hardback. UK paperback (Penguin), 1986 Pages: 237 Summary: An account of the struggle of Jews inside the Soviet Union to emigrate. Based on clandestine notes kept during a two-week visit by the author to Moscow, Leningrad and Minsk. Translations: Hebrew, Japanese Notes About This Book: 29 photographs Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction Publishing data: HarperCollins UK (30 March 2006); HarperCollins USA (1 June 2006). Pages: 314 Summary: An account of the devastating attacks on Jews and Jewish property, and the destruction of more than a thousand synagogues in Germany and Austria on 9/10 November 1938, and of the fate of the Jews who witnessed that destruction. A study of the German and Austrian Jewish struggle to emigrate, and the story of those diplomats and other individuals in Germany and outside it who did what they could to help Jews and to facilitate their emigration. Incorporates more than fifty eyewitness accounts that were sent to the author while he was writing the book. Translations: Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Portuguese (Brazil) Notes About This Book: Twenty-five maps compiled by the author, including the previously unmapped locations of every synagogue destroyed. Nineteen photographs. Source references at the bottom of each page. Eight pages of sources and bibliography of works cited. Index complied by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and their Faith Publishing data: UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Schocken), hardback, 2002; UK paperback, 2nd edition, 2003 Pages: 460 Summary: 140 letters (141 in the 2nd edition), written by the author to 'Auntie Fori' (Mrs B.K. Nehru) in India, giving a picture of Jewish history, traditions, faith and worship from Biblical times to the present day. Among the letters are those on Napoleon and the Jews, Gandhi and the Jews, Jews in Sports, the Sabbath, Philanthropy and Self Help, the State of Israel, the Jews of China, the Jews of India, and the Jews of Alaska. Translations: Bulgarian Notes About This Book: 5-page introduction; 6-page epilogue; 3-page bibliography; 13 maps prepared by the author for this volume. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Lloyd George: Great Lives Observed (editor) Publishing data: USA (Prentice Hall), 1968, hardback and paperback. Pages: 182 Summary: A documentary study of the career of David Lloyd George, part one through his own words, part two through the words of his contemporaries, part three, in retrospect. Notes About This Book: Part of the Prentice-Hall Great Lives Observed series. Introduction and afterword by the author. Contains a two-page chronology of the life of Lloyd George. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: 'Never Again': A History of the Holocaust Publishing data: UK (HarperCollins), USA (Rizzoli-Universe), hardback, 2000; UK paperback, revised edition, 2001 Pages: 192 Summary: An illustrated history of the Holocaust, with 78 two-page spreads, each on a specific theme, each illustrated. Themes include pre-war Jewish life, Kristallnacht, Education and culture in the ghettos, the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, Escape to the partisans, Hidden Children, Jews in the Allied armies, Anne Frank. Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, the Death Marches, the liberations of the concentration camps, 'second generation', and 'bearing witness'. Translations: Dutch, Italian, French, Polish, Lithuanian, Czech Notes About This Book: 25 colour maps, 276 illustrations, including facsimile documents and wartime photographs; 2-page illustrated chronology; 4-page illustrated bibliography Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of Lord Allen of Hurtwood (editor) Publishing data: UK (Longmans), 1965, hardback. Pages: 442 Summary: The story, told through Clifford Allen's own letters, notes and other documents, of a Cambridge-educated Socialist who was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during the First World Was, and was later active in international affairs, first as a strong supporter of appeasement, and then as a staunch opponent of Nazi persecution. Notes About This Book: Includes biographical notes of the characters mentioned in the documents, and eleven photographs Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Recent History Atlas, 1860-1960 Publishing data: UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Macmillan), 1966, hardback and paperback. Pages: 121 Maps Summary: Martin Gilbert's first atlas. Some of the maps had first been prepared for his book The European Powers. The cartography was by John Flower. Each map was designed to help explain some important episode in world history between 1870 and 1960. Notes About This Book: A paperback as well as a hardback edition was published. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Second World War Publishing data: UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Holt), 1989; paperback, 3rd UK printing, 2000, 8th US printing, 2001. Pages: 846 Summary: A history of the Second World War that covers all the war fronts, the fighting on land, at sea and in the air, the activities of resistance and partisan groups, espionage, secret intelligence, strategy and tactics, war leaders, generals, admirals and air marshals, individual acts of heroism on all the war fronts and behind the lines, the fate of prisoners of war, the bombing of cities, the submarine war, and the aftermath of the war. Translations: German, Italian, Polish Notes About This Book: The first history of the second World War - and to date the only one - in which the fate of the Jews, and of the many other civilian victims, is an integral part of the war narrative. 102 maps specially prepared by the author for this volume; 130 photographs. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Servant of India (editor) Publishing data: UK (Longmans), 1966, hardback. Pages: 266 Summary: A documentary study of British imperial rule in India from 1905 to 1910, as told through the correspondence and diaries if the Viceroy's Private Secretary, Sir James Dunlop Smith. Notes About This Book: Includes biographical notes of the characters mentioned in the documents. Seventeen photographs, and five maps specially prepared by the author. Preface and epilogue by Lord Butler of Saffron Walden (R.A. Butler), a nephew of Sir James Dunlop Smith. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time Publishing data: UK (Macmillan); USA (Viking-Elizabeth Sifton Books), hardback 1986; paperback 1989 (UK paperback, Penguin). Pages: 467 Summary: The story, from birth to freedom, of a leading campaigner for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate, who spend nine years as a prisoner of the Soviet regime. Translations: Hebrew, Dutch Notes About This Book: Contains the full text of many of his letters while he was a prisoner; 58 photographs; a 9-page bibliography of works consulted; 2 maps compiled for the author for this volume; list of annual emigration of Soviet Jews from 1951 to 1985; list of former Prisoners of Zion still refused exit visas in on 12 February 1986; list of all Jews held prisoner on 12 February 1986 for demanding the right to emigrated. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat, 1869-1941. Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), 1973, hardback Pages: 496 Summary: The biography of a British diplomat who was Ambassador in Berlin when Hitler came to power. Tells the story of his youth, and of all his diplomatic appointments, through private letters and diplomatic documents. Notes About This Book: Biographical notes compiled by the author about everyone mentioned in the book. Four-page list of sources. Four maps drawn specially for this volume, and one contemporary map from the Peel Royal Commission on Palestine, of which Rumbold was a member. 45 photographs Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Appeasers (co-authored with Richard Gott) Publishing data: UK (Weidenfeld and Nicolson); USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1963, hardback and paperback. Reprinted, 1968 and 2000 (UK paperback) Pages: 444 Summary: An account of the British government's policy of appeasement from 1933 to 1939, and its opponents. Translations: German, Romanian, Polish Notes About This Book: Contains biographical sketches, a bibliography, and four maps specially drawn for this volume. The 2000 paperback edition has a new, six-page introduction, drawing on British Cabinet records and other materials not available when the book was first published. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Boys, Triumph Over Adversity Publishing data: UK (Weidenfeld); USA (Holt), hardback, 1996; paperback, 1997 Pages: 511 Summary: The story of 732 teenage survivors of the Holocaust who were brought to Britain immediately after the war for rehabilitation and education. Most had lost their parents and most or all of their immediate family in the Holocaust. The book describes, largely in their own words, their life before the war, mostly in Poland and Hungary, their wartime experiences, and their life after the war as they fought to regain the sanity and normality of life. Notes About This Book: Cites correspondence between the author and 79 'Boys' - who included several girls - and 16 of those who helped them when they reached Britain. All source notes at the bottom of the page; 39 photographs; 8 maps prepared by the author; glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew words. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Churchill War Papers, Volume One: Winston S Churchill, 'At The Admiralty': September 1939-May1940 Publishing data: UK (Heinemann); USA (Norton), 1993. Hardback. Pages: 1,370 Summary: More than 2,000 documents relating to Churchill's period as First Lord of the Admiralty from September 1939 to May 1940; the full transcripts of all his speeches during that period; his interventions in Cabinet and at Cabinet committees; official and private correspondence, covering every aspect of his work and thought. Notes About This Book: This volume is the first of the Second World War continuations of the Churchill document volumes. Comprehensive annotations; 9-page preface; 28 maps specially prepared for this volume by the author; a facsimile Churchill letter; a list of Cabinet members, a list of wartime abbreviations, and a list of code words. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Churchill War Papers, Volume Three: Winston S Churchill, 'The Ever-Widening War': 1941 Publishing data: UK (Heinemann); USA (Norton), 2000 Pages: 1,821 Summary: The year 1941 seen through Churchill's letters, instructions, interventions in Cabinet and Cabinet committees, minutes, memoranda, telegrams and speeches - his speeches for the year are printed here in full. Based on the British government archives, which contain by far the largest collection of Churchill's own Second World War archive, as well as the government's Cabinet and Ministerial archives, individual private and archival collections, and correspondence with Churchill's contemporaries. Notes About This Book: Lists of Cabinet Ministers, British code names, and wartime abbreviations; 46-page author's preface; 22 maps prepared for this volume by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Churchill War Papers, Volume Two: Winston S Churchill, 'Never Surrender': May-December 1940 Publishing data: UK (Heinemann); USA (Norton), 1995. Hardback. Pages: 1,359 Summary: More than 2,000 documents relating to Churchill's first eight months as Prime Minister; the full transcripts of all his speeches during that period; his interventions in Cabinet and at Cabinet committees; official and private correspondence, covering every aspect of his work and thought. Rich in general material on British and world history during those eight months. Notes About This Book: 18 page preface; 11 maps prepared by the author for this volume; Comprehensive annotations. Lists of code names, wartime abbreviations, members of the government, and senior officials. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Coming of War, 1939 (Jackdaw folder) Publishing data: UK, 1972 Pages: N/A Summary: Four narrative sheets. Two maps. An illustrated booklet containing extracts from Hitler's speeches, the Nuremberg Laws, and comments by his contemporaries. Eight facsimiles: including the signatures of Hitler and Chamberlain on their Munich declaration, and newspapers. A sheet of twelve maps from various of the author's atlases and books. Notes About This Book: No. 64 in a series of Jackdaw folders, of which Martin Gilbert also did No. 31, Winston Churchill. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Day the War Ended (VE Day 1945) Publishing data: UK (HarperCollins); USA (Holt), 1995, hardback and paperback. Paperback reprinted in the USA 2003. Pages: 473 Summary: An account of where people were, and what they were doing and thinking, when the war ended for them, focussing on the events of April and the first week of May 1945. Translations: Slovak Notes About This Book: based on archival, newspaper and personal testimonies, including the author's correspondence with 208 people who corresponded with the author about their personal recollections. 62 illustrations - photographs and cartoons - and 15 maps prepared by the author for this volume. All source references at the bottom of each page. Facsimile of a surrender leaflet dropped by the Allies to German troops. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The European Powers 1900-1945 Publishing data: UK (Weidenfeld); USA (New American Library), 1965, hardback and paperback; UK reprint, 2001 Pages: 308 Summary: A history of Europe in the first forty-five years of the twentieth century, with the stress on political and diplomatic history. Translations: Spanish Notes About This Book: Thirty-eight photographs. Twenty-nine maps specially prepared by the author for this volume. Bibliography. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Holocaust, Maps and Photographs (for schools) Publishing data: 1978, paperback; fifth edition (Holocaust Educational Trust) 1998 Pages: 59 Summary: 27 maps and 53 photographs, giving a perspective on the Holocaust for young people, including five maps of Jewish life before Hitler's coming to power, and maps on Jewish resistance, Jewish children in hiding, and Righteous Gentiles. Notes About This Book: List of sources for the illustrations; note on sources Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy (American title: The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War) Publishing data: UK (Collins), USA (Holt), 1986, hardback and paperback; 15th UK paperback printing, 2006; 14th US paperback printing, 2002. Pages: 959 Summary: A comprehensive history of the Holocaust from the rise of Hitler to power in 1933 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. Translations: Bulgarian, Macedonian Notes About This Book: Based on German and Jewish documentation, including material collected for the Nuremberg, Eichmann and other war crimes trials, with further personal testimony of eye-witnesses and survivors, and interviews conducted by the author; 34 photographs; 25 maps specially prepared for this volume by the author; 65 pages of notes and sources. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps Publishing data: UK (Board of Deputies of British Jews) 1976, paperback (maps only); reprinted 1977, with illustrations. Pages: 15 maps; the illustrated edition has 39 photographs. Summary: An account of the life and status of Jews in Arab and Muslim lands from the rise of Islam to the modern era. Translations: French, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic. Notes About This Book: All the maps in this atlas have now been incorporated into the most recent editions of the Jewish history Atlas Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps and Photographs Publishing data: UK hardback (National Council for Soviet Jewry), 1976; UK, 1976, paperback; second edition, 1977; third edition, 1979. Pages: 78 (26 maps and 96 illustrations) Summary: A map survey of the history of Jews in Russia from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century. Translations: Spanish Notes About This Book: Two-page list of sources for the illustrations. All the maps in this atlas have now been incorporated into the most recent editions of the Jewish History Atlas Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Righteous: The Unsung Heros of the Holocaust Publishing data: UK (Doubleday); 2002; USA (Holt) 2003; Canada (Key Porter), 2003 Pages: 460 Summary: The story of non-Jews, most of them Christian, but also Muslims, who risked their lives to hide Jews during the Holocaust. Includes the refusal of the Bulgarian Church, parliament and people to alone the deportation of Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews. Looks at the role of people and resistance in Denmark and Norway. Explores the part played by Christian clergymen and women in every land to try to save Jews. The story, above all, of more than 20,000 'ordinary' men and women who acted in a decent, humane and life-saving way. Translations: French Notes About This Book: All source references at the bottom of each page; 17 page bibliography of works cited; 64 photographs; 18 maps specially prepared by the author for this volume. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Roots of Appeasement Publishing data: UK (Weidenfeld); USA (New American Library), 1966, hardback and paperback. Pages: 254 Summary: Traces the appeasement ideologies and policies of British thinkers and governments from the eighteenth century to the outbreak of war in 1939. Focuses on the impact of the Treaty of Versailles and the search for a 'just' peace in Europe, and how that search was affected by the rise of Nazism. Notes About This Book: Contains a 'Chronology of Appeasement', as well as five maps specially drawn for this volume, and five appendices, including the complete transcript of Lloyd George's conversation with Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1936. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Second World War (for schools) Publishing data: UK (Chatto and Windus), 1970, paperback. Pages: 108 Summary: A short history of the Second World War for schools, covering all the war fronts. Notes About This Book: Part of a Chatto and Windus series, The World in the Twentieth Century. Includes a listing of Great Power industrial production in 1940, a brief chronology, and a two- page bibliography. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Somme : Heroism and Horror in the First World War Publishing data: John Murray UK; Henry Holt USA; McClelland and Stewart Canada (29 June 2006) Pages: 332 Summary: A study of the five-and-a-half-month struggle on the Western Front, from 1 July to 18 November 1916, as seen through the words of the commanders, the officers and the men, of whom more than 310,000 were killed: among them Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotsmen, Welshmen, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Newfoundlanders, South Africans, Frenchmen and Germans. Translations: Dutch Notes About This Book: Includes 49 photographs, 33 specially drawn maps, a 7-page bibliography, and a 17-page itemized index compiled by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: The Story of Israel Publishing data: Ingram USA (1 April 2008); Andre Deutsch UK (3 April 2008); Indigo Books, Canada Pages: 63 Summary: An illustrated history of the emergence of Israel and its first sixty years. The book starts with the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, and takes the story to the first decade of the Twenty-First Century. Translations: French (Grund) Notes About This Book: Includes more than 350 photographs, 14 colour maps, and 40 facsimile documents (letter, posters, diaries etc), many of which can be taken out of their envelopes and pouches Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Will of the People Publishing data: Random House Canada, September 12 2006 Pages: 149 Summary: A study of Churchill's work as a Parliamentarian for for than five decades, and his views on democracy in peace and war Notes About This Book: Originally a lecture given in Toronto for the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy. Two maps. A six-page index compiled by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston Churchill (for schools) Publishing data: UK (Oxford University Press); USA (Dial Press), 1966, hardback and paperback. Pages: 64 Summary: A short biography of Churchill for schools, published in the Oxford University Press Clarendon Biographies series. Notes About This Book: Written in the months following Churchill's death. Fifteen photographs. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston Churchill (Jackdaw folder for school) Publishing data: UK, 1969 Pages: Four narrative sheets. Two maps. An illustrated booklet of extracts from Churchill speeches, a broadcast and an article. Ten facsimiles: including a Churchill manuscript letter, newspapers, a wartime message ('Beating the Invader') and a telegram. Summary: A visual documentary presentation of Churchill's life. Notes About This Book: No. 31 in a series of Jackdaw folders, of which Martin Gilbert also did No. 64, the Coming of war, 1939. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston Churchill and Emery Reves, Correspondence 1937-1964 Publishing data: USA (University of Texas Press), 1997. Hardback Pages: 397 Summary: The complete correspondence between Winston Churchill and his literary agent Emery Reves. Includes correspondence about the world-wide publication of Churchill's pre-war anti-Nazi newspaper and magazine articles, and the negotiations for the sale of his war memoirs after the war. Notes About This Book: 20-page introduction by the author, 3 photographs, 5 facsimile documents, 3 maps prepared by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years Publishing data: UK (Macmillan); USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1981, hardback; second UK edition, 2004, (Pimlico) paperback. Pages: 279 Summary: The story of Churchill's six-year struggle to alert the British government to the dangers of Nazism. Much personal as well as political detail. A full account of those officials and serving officers who brought him secret information. Notes About This Book: 65 photographs and 9 cartoons. The book was used as the basis for the television film of the same name, starring Robert Hardy as Churchill and Sean Phillips as Clementine. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston Churchill's War Leadership Publishing data: USA, Vintage Books, UK, Random House; Canada, Random House Canada 2004. (The Canadian edition is entitled "Continue to Pester Nag and Bite: Churchill's War Leadership".) Pages: 97 Summary: Examines every facet of Churchill's war leadership: the influence of his past experience, his speeches and broadcasts, his opposition to defeatism, his search for national unity, his working patterns, his realtionships with his staff and subordinates, and his wartime attitude to tyranny and democracy. Notes About This Book: An enlarged version of a lecture first delivered in the White House (14 February 2002) and then extended as the Barbara Frum lecture in Toronto (15 April 2004). Includes a six-page index. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill, The Coming of War, 1936-1939 (documents) Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), 1982; USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1982; both hardback. Pages: 1,684 Summary: An essential source book for Churchill's life and work during the last three years of his political wilderness, including at the time of the Munich Agreement; rich in general material on British and world history during those years, and in personal material, including life at Chartwell, family and friends, and his travel in France. Notes About This Book: 8-page preface. Biographical notes for every person mentioned in the text. The rarest of Martin Gilbert's books. Copies have recently sold for more than $1,000. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill, The Exchequer Years, 1922-1929 (documents) Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1979. Hardback. Pages: 1,504 Summary: An essential source book for Churchill's work as Chancellor of the Exchequer, including the return to the Gold Standard, the General Strike and Coal Strike, and the war debt negotiations between the former Allied Powers; rich in general material on British and world history during those years, and in personal material, including life at Chartwell, family and friends. Notes About This Book: A ten-page preface. Biographical notes about all the people mentioned in the documents. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill, The Wilderness Years, 1929-1935 (documents) Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1981. Hardback Pages: 1,404 Summary: An essential source book for Churchill's life and work during the first five-and-a-half years of his political wilderness; rich in general material on British and world history during those years, and in personal material, including life at Chartwell, family and friends, and his travels in Canada and the United States. Notes About This Book: A six-page introduction. Biographical notes for every person mentioned in the text. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill: Volume Eight: Never Despair 1945-1965 Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1988; UK paperback, 1990. Pages: 1,438 Summary: The last twenty years of Churchill's life, including his 'Iron Curtain' speech, his calls for a United States of Europe, his second premiership and search for a summit meeting between Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, and his ten years in retirement. Notes About This Book: 38 photographs, including a colour frontispiece; and 11 maps prepared specially for this volume by the author. As well as material from more forty archives, the author makes use of than a hundred interviews and exchanges of correspondence with those who knew Churchill or were involved with him. All source references are at the bottom of each page. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill: Volume Five: The Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939 Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1976, Hardback, reprinted, 1988, 1990; UK paperback, 1990. Pages: 1,167 Summary: Highlights Churchill's five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his ten years in the political wilderness. Includes substantial sections on his opposition to the India Bill, and on his opposition to appeasement. Many personal vignettes about Churchill. Notes About This Book: Twenty-three pages of source notes. Fifty-seven illustrations. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill: Volume Four Documents (in 3 volumes) Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1977. Hardback Pages: 2,165 Summary: More than 2,500 documents, including Churchill's personal and political letters, the letters and diaries of his contemporaries, and Cabinet records, spanning the period January 1917 to November 1922. Notes About This Book: An essential source book for Churchill's work as Minister of Munitions, as Secretary of State for War and Air, and as Secretary of State for the Colonies, including responsibility for the Palestine Mandate; rich in general material on British and world history during those years. Twelve specially drawn maps. Biographical notes about all the people mentioned in the documents. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill: Volume Four: World in Torment 1917-1922 Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1975, hardback; UK paperback, 1990. Pages: 967 Summary: Churchill's story between 1917 and 1922, including his work as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Air, and Colonial Secretary, when he was also in charge of Britain's Middle East policy. Many insights into his character and personal life and character. Notes About This Book: Thirteen maps prepared specially for this volume. Fifty-nine photographs. Twenty-one pages of source notes. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill: Volume Seven: Road to Victory 1941-1945 Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1986; UK paperback, 1990. Pages: 1,417 Summary: Churchill's political and personal story, from Pearl Harbor to the defeat of Hitler, and his own defeat in the 1945 General Election. Based on his private archive, on government archives many of which had long been closed, on more than sixty other archival sources, and on eighty interviews conducted by the author. Notes About This Book: 40 photographs; 15 maps compiled by the author for this volume. All source references at the bottom of each page. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill: Volume Six: Finest Hour 1939-1941 Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1983, hardback. UK paperback, 1990. Pages: 1,308 Summary: the story of Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, and Prime Minister, from the outbreak of the Second World War until Pearl Harbor. A detailed portrait of a war leader, drawing on his private archive, and on official archives, many of which had hitherto been closed. The inner story of war leadership. Notes About This Book: 22 maps specially prepared for this volume by the author; 43 photographs. All source references at the bottom of each page. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill: Volume Three, Documents (in two parts), also known as 'Companion Volume III Part 1 and Part 2' to the Churchill Biography. Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), USA (Houghton Mifflin), 1972 Pages: 1,685 Summary: More than 2,000 documents, including Churchill's personal and political letters, the letters and diaries of his contemporaries, and Cabinet records, spanning the period September 1914 to December 1916. Notes About This Book: Used as a set text in the Oxford University history syllabus. Seventeen maps specially prepared by the author. Purchasing Options:
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	Title: Winston S Churchill: Volume Three: The Challenge of War: 1914-1916 Publishing data: UK (Heinemann); USA (Houghton Mifflin), 197l; UK reprint, 1977; UK paperback, 1990. Pages: 998 Summary: Tells Churchill's story in all its aspects - political and personal- from the outbreak of war in August 1914 until December 1916. Notes About This Book: Six facsimile letters, 56 photographs, and 20 maps specially prepared for this volume by the author. Biographical notes about every person mentioned in the volume. Purchasing Options:
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