“Finest Hour, The Journal for Winston Churchill” paid tribute to Sir Martin; dedicating their autumn issue, October 2014 in his honour. Richard Langworth, the editor writes :
This is my last issue of “Finest Hour”. There is no better way to complete my work of forty years than with these tributes from some of Martin’s many admirers. I am grateful to them all for highlighting an extraordinary career in words full of love, respect, humor, and above all of the character and humanity of a great man.
Martin Gilbert by his Friends:
“Rose-Lipt Maidens, Lightfoot Lads”, Richard Langworth, Editor, Finest Hour
Sir Winston’s Boswell, Sir John Major, British Prime Minister, November 1990 to May 1997
The Road Not Travelled, Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, June 2007 to May 2010
Life, Love and Liberty, Max Hastings, Journalist and Broadcaster
The Map-Maker, Tonie and Valmai Holt, Battlefield Guides and Authors
Gratitude, Hon. Douglas S. Russell, Judge, Iowa District Court, and R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, The American Spectator
Martin Gilbert and the “Great Work”: Present at the Creation, Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College, Publisher, the Official Biography
Master of Chronology, Andrew Roberts, British Historian and Journalist
“Would You Like to See the Fulton Speech?”, Barry Singer, proprietor, Chartwell Booksellers, New York, Author
Achievement on a Colossal Scale, Dr. Paul Addison, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh, British Author and Historian
Humanitarian Historian: Sir Martin Gilbert’s Engagement with the Holocaust, Dr. David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas
Churchill and the Holocaust: A Personal Memoir, Cyril Mazansky, Former Member of the Board of Governors, Finest Hour
A Gentleman and a “Mensch”, Matthew S. Gould, CBE, MBE, Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador to the State of Israel, September 2010 to 2015
Martin Gilbert and the Soviet Refuseniks, Dr. Michael Beizer, Historian of Russian Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and former Leningrad Refusenik and Activist
“Cosmos out of Chaos”: Gilbert as Archivist, Allen Packwood, BA, MPhil, Director, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
Gilbert and Bibliography, Ronald I. Cohen, MBE, Author, Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill
History Meets Geography: Travels with Martin, Esther Gilbert, Sir Martin’s wife
“He Worked Like a Tiger”, Randolph S. Churchill, Great-grandson and Trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
In Search of Inscriptions, Dr. David Freeman, Professor of History, California State University, Fullerton, new Editor, Finest Hour
Memories, Jacqueline Dean Witter, former Director, International Churchill Society
All the Books of Sir Martin Gilbert, Christopher H. Sterling, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
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