Born in London in 1936 and now resident in north London, Sir Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford. An outstanding historian of the 20th century, he became the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill in 1968 and has written to great acclaim on the Holocaust and the events of the Second World War.
Sir Martin's great acheivement is his ability never to lose sight of the individual in a history of mass war and mass suffering. * CONTEMPORARY REVIEW * Alongside his account of the First World War, this classic book belongs on every bookshelf * NORTHERN ECHO *