15 May 2007

This year sees the publication by Simon and Schuster in Britain (in June), Holt in the United States (in October), and McLelland and Stewart in Canada (also in June) of CHURCHILL AND THE JEWS, a study of Churchill's lifelong relationship with the Jews and Zionism.

My main work in progress, as I write these words, is a new atlas, ATLAS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. It will have 160 maps, and be in the same style and format as my ATLAS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. A paperback edition will be published simultaneously with the hardback.

After the atlas, I will be writing THE JEWS OF ARAB LANDS, a book on which I have been collecting material for some time. After that will be a book on which I began work fifteen years ago, the story of THE JEWS OF BRITAIN, whose community has just celebrated the 350th anniversary of its re-establishment at the instigation of Oliver Cromwell.

Further ahead lie several projects, which I have long wanted to write, and for which I have long been collecting material. These include a history of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of 1915; a history of Jewish resistance in the Second World War; a study of the long struggle of Jews in the Soviet Union to leave the Soviet Union during the Iron Curtain era; and a CHURCHILL ATLAS, portraying in more than a hundred maps (thirty of which I have already drawn) Winston Churchill's extraordinarily active life, in peace and in war, spanning ninety years.

Beyond that it might be rash of me to plan, as last October I reached "three score years and ten".