Welcome to Sir Martin Gilbert's website, a celebration of his life and his work, his passion, his philosophy, his favourite haunts, his humour and his humanity.
The official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian on the Twentieth Century, Sir Martin is a scholar and an historian who, through his 88 books, has shown there is such a thing as “true history”.
“There is a lot of stuff going on – just FYI your shelter is open.”
Photo: The Iron Dome intercepting rockets from Gaza 600 words / 3 minute read As I write this I am in Jerusalem. The day this text came in from my daughter, I had just begun the intensive work of indexing the new edition of Martin’s Atlas of Jewish History. I...
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The Farhud Baghdad, 1 June 1941
Photo: The Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin Al-Husaini and Hitler, the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 28 November 1941 560 words / 3 minute read … the British forces allowed the defeated Iraqi troops to return to their barracks without surrendering their weapons. Stung b...
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Photo: Martin’s map of the landing beaches 725 words / 4 minute read On the morning of June 5, Eisenhower wrote a message, in his own hand, to be published in the event of failure. It read: “Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a sat...
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