Sir Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill's official biographer, and a leading historian of the modern world.

Martin Gilbert is the author of eighty-two books, among them the single-volume Churchill: A Life, his twin histories First World War and Second World War, a comprehensive History of Israel, and his three-volume work, A History of the Twentieth Century. (also published in a single, condensed volume). He is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College, Michigan.

His book The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy (published in the United States as The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War) is a classic work on the subject.

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In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
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Yale University Press (Britain and the United States) and McClelland & Stewart Ltd (Canada), August 2010.
Summary:
In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim LandsThe story of 1,400 years of Jewish life in Muslim lands.

Starting before the advent of Islam, this book shows how the Jews and Muslims interacted in all the lands, from Afghanistan to Morocco, that came under Muslim rule. It is a story of both coexistence and conflict.
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