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Sir Martin’s eighty –  eight published books are divided into eight “Book Collections” based by theme : The Multi-Volume “Official Biography” of Winston Churchill, other books Sir Martin has written about Churchill, The First World War, The Second World War, The Holocaust,  Israel and Jewish History, The Twentieth Century, and the historical Atlases.

 

OFFICIAL CHURCHILL BIOGRAPHY
Biography Volumes: III through VIII (6 volumes)
Document Volumes: Volumes 6 through 17 (12 volumes)

• The Churchill Documents, Volume 18 : One Continent Redeemed, January – August 1943 by Martin Gilbert and Larry P. Arnn
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 16: The Ever-Widening War, 1941
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 15: Never Surrender, May 1940 - December 1940
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 14: At The Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940
• Winston S Churchill, Volume VIII: Never Despair 1945-1965
• Winston S Churchill, Volume VII: Road to Victory, 1941-1945
• Winston S Churchill, Volume VI: Finest Hour, 1939-1941
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 13:The Coming of War, 1936-1939
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 17: Testing Times, 1942
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 12: The Wilderness Years, 1929-1935
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 11: The Exchequer Years, 1922-1929
• Winston S. Churchill, Volume V: The Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 10: Conciliation and Reconstruction, April 1921 – November 1922
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 9: Disruption and Chaos, July 1919 – March 1921
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 8: War and Aftermath, December 1916 – June 1919
• Winston S. Churchill, Volume IV: World in Torment, 1916-1922
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 7: The Escaped Scapegoat, May 1915 – December 1916
• The Churchill Documents, Volume 6: At the Admiralty, July 1914 – April 1915
• Winston S.Churchill, Volume III: The Challenge of War, 1914-1916

 

CHURCHILL COLLECTION

• Churchill's Political Philosophy
• Churchill and the Jews
• Churchill at War: His 'Finest Hour' in Photographs 1939-1945
• Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence 1937-1964
• Churchill, A Life: Abridged Pocket Edition
• Churchill: A Biography
• Churchill: A Photographic Portrait
• Winston Churchill: Jackdaw
• Churchill: Great Lives Observed
• Winston Churchill: Clarendon Biographies
• Winston Churchill, The Wilderness Years: A Lone Voice Against Hitler in the Prelude to War
• Winston Churchill's War Leadership: Continue to Pester, Nag and Bite
• The Will of the People: Winston Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy
• Churchill and America
• In Search of Churchill
• Churchill, A Life
• Churchill: The Power of Words

 

FIRST WORLD WAR

• The Routledge Atlas of the First World War: Third Edition
• The Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War
• The First World War: A Complete History

 

SECOND WORLD WAR

• The Coming of War, 1939: Jackdaw
• The Day the War Ended: May 8, 1945 - Victory in Europe
• The Second World War: The World in the Twentieth Century
• The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War: Second Edition
• D-Day
• The Second World War: A Complete History

 

HOLOCAUST

• The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
• Never Again: A History of the Holocaust
• Holocaust Journey: Travelling in Search of the Past
• The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity
• Final Journey: The Fate of the Jews in Nazi Europe
• The Holocaust: Maps and Photographs
• The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust: Fourth Edition
• Surviving the Holocaust, The Kovno Ghetto Diary by Avraham Tory: Edited by Martin Gilbert
• Auschwitz and the Allies: How the Allies responded to the news of Hitler's Final Solution
• Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction
• The Holocaust: The Human Tragedy

 

ISRAEL & JEWISH HISTORY

• From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the Twentieth Century
• Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time
• Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City
• Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today
• Exile and Return: The Struggle for a Jewish Homeland
• The Routledge Historical Atlas of Jerusalem: Fourth Edition
• The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Tenth Edition
• Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century
• The Story of Israel: From Theodor Herzl to the Dream for Peace
• In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews In Muslim Lands
• Letters To Auntie Fori: The Story Of The Jewish People
• Israel: A History
• The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History: Eighth Edition

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY

• Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat, 1869-1941
• Lloyd George: Great Lives Observed
• Servant of India, Sir James Dunlop Smith: Private Secretary to the Viceroy
• The Roots of Appeasement
• Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of Lord Allen of Hurtwood
• The European Powers 1900-1945
• Britain and Germany Between the Wars
• The Appeasers: Co-authored with Richard Gott
• A History of the 20th Century: Volume Three, 1952-1999 Challenges to Civilization
• A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume Two, 1933 – 1951 Descent into Barbarism
• A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume One, 1900 – 1933 Empires in Conflict
• History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition

 

ATLASES

• The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps
• Atlas Of British Charities
• Children's Illustrated Bible Atlas
• The Holocaust: Maps and Photographs
• The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps and Photographs
• The Recent History Atlas, 1860-1960
• The Routledge Atlas of the First World War: Third Edition
• The Routledge Atlas of American History: Sixth Edition
• The Routledge Atlas of Russian History: Fourth Edition
• The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust: Fourth Edition
• The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War: Second Edition
• The Routledge Historical Atlas of Jerusalem: Fourth Edition
• The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Tenth Edition
• The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History: Eighth Edition
• The Routledge Atlas of British History: Fifth Edition

 

Blog & Blatt Articles

• Sir Martin Gilbert Library, Highgate School
• Bombing Auschwitz: Fact & Myth
• Churchill and Enigma
• Five Hours on the Golan, Israel,19 October 1973
• Yitzhak Rabin in Churchill’s War Rooms with Sir Martin
• “The Rise of Fascism in Europe in the Twentieth Century: Lessons for Today”
• “The Beast of Bergholt”
• THE ORIGINS OF THE 'IRON CURTAIN' SPEECH
• Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler's “Escape from Auschwitz, April 1944”
• Finest Hour: The Journal of Winston Churchill
• Wallenberg and Vrba-Wetzler Report
• READ SIR MARTIN'S PERSONAL TRAVEL DIARY TO POLAND
• Beware of Oysters in June
• Sir Martin pays tribute to Major and Mrs Holt
• Read Esther Gilbert's blog on Sir Martin for The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
• Read Sir Martin's: The First World War In Retrospect
• CHURCHILL IN 1940: HIGH POINTS AND LOW POINTS
• Churchill and Power
• “Let us take the rough with the smooth”
• Sir John Major's Inaugural Lecture At The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre
• The Battle of Cable Street
• BUDAPEST Chronology
• The Second World War – the Backstory
• Randolph Churchill on the Churchill Biography
• Political Leadership by Sir Martin Gilbert
• What Tolkien Taught Me About the Battle of the Somme
• Sir Martin's "Regrets"
• Gray Academy of Jewish Education Graduates
• Find the answers in Sir Martin's Indexes
• Why is this night different from all other nights? By Esther Gilbert
• The Holocaust – what we need to know and what we can learn from it.
• What can we learn from History?
• The "Roots" Trips
• Belarus: the Back Story
• Sir Martin on Churchill and Leadership
• Why Study Churchill?
• “The Biographer in Waiting”
• Medicine January 2021/January 1942 The sacred and the profane by Esther Gilbert
• Myth and Reality. What Did Churchill Really Think About the Jews?
• The German Invasion of Russia
• 1921 - the Storm Clouds Gather. Nazi Germany / Soviet Russia set their agendas
• Sir Martin and Me
• "The Boys" celebrate 70 years of Freedom
• Is Holocaust Education the Antidote to Antisemitism? By Esther Gilbert
• Texas Bill H.B. No. 3979 “Fairness” on steroids
• Churchill: Forty Years On
• Tribute from the Churchill Centre
• More a Time for Mourning
• Esther Gilbert pays tribute to Sir Martin in 'All Generations'
• Recognition for Bomber Command Correspondence with Wg Cdr A J Wright DFC RAF (Ret)
• Israel Joins the “Comity of Nations”
• A LIFE REMEMBERED
• IWM tribute to "The Boys"
• Governor General of Canada speaks of Sir Martin at the Battle of Britain ceremony
• "Kristallnacht taught several lessons"
• Kristallnacht Book Launch at The German Embassy
• Perfect Seasonal Book Gifts
• How to spell Hanukah?
• Randolph Churchill's Tribute at Sir Martin's Memorial
• Book Donation to Cayman Islands From Sir Martin's private collection
• SIR MARTIN'S HOLOCAUST INSPIRES TEACHERS
• Sir Martin Gilbert Memorial Tribute
• SIR MARTIN & CHURCHILL CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP
• Book Club Quiz Winner, Patricia Finnegan's tribute to Sir Martin
• MARCH BOOK CLUB QUIZ WINNER JONATHAN HEAD PAYS TRIBUTE TO SIR MARTIN
• Winston Churchill and the foundation of Israel
• Congratulations to Avinoam Miller from the USA, our April 2016 Book Club winner
• New on Sir Martin's Website, Filmography & Indexes
• Churchill and the Allies One Stop Search
• Congratulations to Alison Nelson from New Zealand our Book Club Prize Winner, June 2016!
• Congratulations to Joe Oliver from the UK, our May 2016 Book Club winner
• A Tribute To Elie Wiesel by Esther Gilbert (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016)
• BookAid International Receives Sir Martin's Books from his Private Collection
• Meet Sir Martin's August 2016 Book Prize Winner From Istanbul
• Composer Leo Geyer writes special score in memory of Sir Martin
• POLAND 1939
• "Postcards From The Edge" From Esther Gilbert
• The Routledge Atlas of The Holocaust
• The Biggest Ever Etgar Challenge July 5, 2016
• Book Club Winner, September 2016, Alan Langstaff from the UK
• "Last Testament" From Esther Gilbert
• October Book Club Prize Winner Dennis Woodcock
• “for the preservation of democratic principles”
• From Esther Gilbert
• Ruth Gruber 20 September 1911 - 17 November 2016
• Carl Davies, November 2016 Book Club Prize Winner:
• Filming at the Wannsee Villa From Esther Gilbert
• The Righteous, The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust and video interview with Sir Martin
• Sir Martin on Pope Pius XII during the Second World War
• In Memoriam Jack Kagan 7 April 1929 - 18 December 2016
• Peeling back the layers of History
• Winston Churchill, The Wilderness Years
• Esther presents Sir Martin's Blogs for Holocaust Memorial Day
• A History of Jews in Muslim Lands   
• A Visit to the Detroit Holocaust Memorial Center from Esther Gilbert
• New Volume in Official Churchill Biography
• Lady Gilbert talks to Hillsdale College where Sir Martin's work continues
• Standing Together
• “Churchill and Zionism”
• Auntie Fori, 5 December 1908 – 25 April 2017
• “Don't let the revisionists rewrite Nazi history”
• “Jerusalem Under Siege, 1948”
• The Normandy Landings
• “The Dilemmas Of Victory”
• A Visit to Rawabi By Esther Gilbert
• Dieppe, 19 August 1942, From Esther Gilbert
• “We have attacked adversity” Ben Helfgott reflects on the Holocaust
• Read Gilbert On DUNKIRK Two Perspectives
• On The Somme
• Now They Listen to Churchill
• Sir Martin & The Refuseniks
• In memory of Robert Hardy October 29,1925 - August 3, 2017
• "From Warsaw to Treblinka"
• The Story of Israel Republished, Watch This Space!
• Sigmund Sobolewski, 11 May 1923 – 7 August 2017
• “Cheated of their prize” Rescue of the Jews of Denmark
• The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH to open the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre
• From Esther Gilbert: In the footsteps of the Danish Jews
• The history of Jerusalem in maps
• The Orchestras of Auschwitz An Original Composition by Constella Opera Ballet Composed in Memory of Sir Martin Gilbert
• Stalingrad, February 1943 “Renewed hope”
• THE BALFOUR DECLARATION
• “We're all in the same boat now.”
• The Journey of Soviet Jews
• In Pursuit Of A Fact: The Backstory
• Churchill Fellows Weekend, 24-25 March
• The Sword or the Pen? The Jewish Experience by Esther Gilbert
• Churchill's "Vote of Confidence"
• Anthony Gilbert, composer, inspired by Sir Martin's Kristallnacht
• “Based on a true story”
• A Much-Loved Classic Reproduced
• Poland's Opportunity By Esther Gilbert
• Dr Martin Luther King
• The Story of Israel
• Israel's 70
• Ben-Gurion Declares Statehood
• The '45 Aid Society and “The Boys”
• Randolph Churchill MBE on the 50th anniversary of his death
• The History of the Newsletters by Esther Gilbert
• Read Gilbert, Putting the Present in Context
• How the Newsletter Evolved From Esther Gilbert
• A Genealogical Query
• When Churchill Went to War with America
• Claude Lanzmann : 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018
• Friday Morning Learning @ the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre
• BOMBER COMMAND CAMPAIGN MEDAL
• Surviving the Holocaust, The Kovno Ghetto Diary By Avraham Tory
• Facebook's Peter Stern responds to Holocaust Educators
• A visit to Vilnius (Vilna) and Kaunas (Kovno) From Esther Gilbert
• Thoughts on Martin's Birthday
• Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education
• Churchill's London, Spinning Top of Memories, Of Ungrand Places and Moments in Time
• A Gilbert Discovery from Esther Gilbert
• Jewish Brigade at Westminster Field of Remembrance
• Corrections Made & Accepted
• “a good starter but … a bad sticker”
• Read Gilbert
• The Mail Bag From Esther Gilbert
• International Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Moshe Yakov Helfgott: Sir Ben Helfgott's Father Remembered
• Martin in Translation By Esther Gilbert
• In Honour of Martin
• Churchill: Villain or Hero?
• “Give us the tools, and we will finish the job”
• The Israeli Elections 2019
• January 20th By Esther Gilbert
• Judy's Laundry Basket
• Jewels from the Archive by Esther Gilbert
• The Archive From Esther Gilbert
• Britain's Refugee Artists of the 1930s 
• Israel's Declaration of Independence
• Taking Gilbert Out of Context
• Travels with Martin, 1
• D-Day
• Travels with Martin, 2
• Max Arthur, Gone, but never “Forgotten”
• Watch the Sir Martin Gilbert Memorial Lecture delivered by the Rt Hon David Miliband
• Tragedy of the Slapton Sands rehearsal for D-Day landings
• “The March in the Footsteps of Heroes” from Auschwitz to Zilina
• A “horrible episode” Oran, 3 July 1940
• The "Catholic Churchill"
• Sir Martin & The Iraq Inquiry
• Sir Martin's Letters to Auntie Fori
• Churchill & Poland
• In praise of barbed wire
• The fire at Crematorium IV
• Bombing Auschwitz, to be or Not to be?
• Mapmaker, Mapmaker Make me a Map
• The Fifty Year Reflections of a Jewish Historian
• Some thoughts on the Sir Martin Gilbert Memorial Lecture delivered by the Rt Hon David Miliband
• Sir Martin's book The Boys
• 2019, A century of anniversaries
• Hatreds: Innate or Acquired?
• 75th anniversary of the “Iron Curtain Speech”
• Heroic Holocaust secret
• Jerusalem Day – May 10
• “We have to think of the future and not of the past”
• Staying in Britain this Summer? Read Gilbert
• Winston S Churchill Speech: New Zealand Division, 4 February 1943, Tripoli
• Holocaust Memorial Day events
• Churchill reacts to the Anschluss, German annexation of Austria March 1938
• “An Intimate Portrait of Winston Churchill” From Esther Gilbert
• In loving memory Catherine Churchill, 16 August 1968 – 10 June 2022
• The Arab-Israeli Conflict Atlas. How Martin came to write it.
• Liberation
• Lockdown, Some thoughts in this uncertain time by Esther Gilbert
• Triumph Over Adversity
• Honouring the past in an uncertain present
• “moving forward into broad, sunlit uplands”
• The law of Stanislaus
• Mrs Esther Malka Weissbraun “Ettie” From Esther Gilbert
• Smashing Statues – the Biblical Precedent
• Memorials and Narratives from Esther Gilbert
• “The momentous day” 6 August 1945
• Why Maps? Why this Atlas?
• Strangers in a strange land
• “To perish, but with honour”
• Jewels in Martin's Archive
• The Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize
• “a lasting union”
• The Holocaust and “Freedom Fighters” by Esther Gilbert
• So, who is this “harlot … in the street” anyway?
• Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: 8 March 1948 – 7 November 2020
• Baby Steps
• The Official Churchill Biography
• “a balanced appraisal”
• “History, faith and reason show the way...”
• “My own journey began in 1962”
• “as a man might woo a maid” by Esther Gilbert
• The Holocaust – the Human Tragedy
• Samuel Pisar's Memoir
• The Also-Rans - Auschwitz and the Allies
• Combatting Hatreds by Esther Gilbert
• … and for how long to rule?
• Location! Location! Location! From Esther Gilbert
• Myths and Realities
• Refugees and Diplomats. What exactly have we learned? From Esther Gilbert
• Churchill in Palestine, 1921 From Esther Gilbert
• An exciting – and timely – new endeavour. A new Kindertransport memorial
• Learning the Lessons of Leadership: Inspiring Our Next Generation
• “Along Afghanistan's War-torn Frontier”
• When journalists write history. From Esther Gilbert
• Churchill, the “Great Gentleman”
• Esther's Moving on … But not really. By Esther Gilbert
• This month, in celebrating the young survivors who came to Britain after the Holocaust, the focus is on The Boys, and the '45 Aid Society they founded
• Two lives lost, far too soon. Sir David Amess, MP James Brokenshire, former MP
• Beautiful world ... indeed!
• Pearl Harbor – Bringing East and West Together
• Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, 28 June 1920 – 15 November 2021
• The 80th Anniversary of the Wannsee Conference: 20 January 2022
• Report from the trenches or Are we there yet? From Esther Gilbert
• Israeli President Herzog meets the Prince of Wales
• Hatred and Hope: Glimmers of light amid recent attacks by Esther Gilbert
• A blood-soaked land
• Dear Mr Gilbert... Martin answered every Churchill inquiry from the four corners of the world
• Controversial, Contentious ... or Context? The "Cons" embedded with Education
• And on a personal note …. March 30th - Looking back 10 years. By Esther Gilbert
• “We are no longer alone”
• Why is this war different from all others? At least for the refugees
• A Tale of Two Vlads (and one Winston) Which Vlad read it?
• "Your courage has defeated the Nazis." Joseph Stalin, 9 May 1945. What will Victory Day 2022 look like?
• “In the shadow of the Holocaust” (But Israel is more than the Holocaust)
• The Loughton Boys Return
• The “test” - risking one's life to save another
• Gerda Weismann Klein: 8 May 1924 – 3 April 2022
• Alan Palmer: 28 September 1926 – 25 March 2022
• A dupe not a villain. The evidence shows Kasztner was fooled by the Nazis into betraying Hungary's Jews
• Accepting reality – now or ever?
• The Boys – a new edition. Coming August 4th
• Senseless Evil – a Jewish Response
• The final gasp of the Soviet Union, August 1991
• The Sarny Yizkor Book
• Anne Frank – What do we really need to know?
• The death of a monarch. What would Martin say?
• Sir Martin's paper trail
• Barbara Winton 23 October 1953 – 20 September 2022
• Russian “military strength” How the Soviet Union survived the Second World War (Anglo-American Aid)
• How History is Written
• The “War to End All Wars” Ends
• Iran What's going on? Where did it come from?
• The Abraham Accords Bear Fruit
• “A Strange Christmas Eve” Winston Churchill's broadcast to the American people, 24 December 1941
• In honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day: 27 January 2023
• Sir Martin's Writing to be Featured on The Together Plan Newsletter
• “Servant of the People” Winston Churchill addresses the US Congress
• The Request to Bomb Dresden February 1945, Yalta
• Survivors in their own right
• And now for something completely different
• Churchill's 1921 visit to Jerusalem
• Is Historical Fiction an Oxymoron?
• “The life of Sir Martin Gilbert and his books on the Holocaust”
• Warsaw, April 1943 “hopeless days of revolt”
• Chaim Topol: 9 September 1935 – 9 March 2023
• “The story behind the photo”
• “God save the King”
• When children were “exterminated”
• “Striking a blow for freedom” D-day minus One
• “There is a lot of stuff going on – just FYI your shelter is open.”
• The Farhud Baghdad, 1 June 1941

 

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