AKA Martin John Gilbert

Born: 25-Oct-1936
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 3-Feb-2015
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: Heart Failure

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Winston S. Churchill

Father: Peter Gilbert
Mother: Miriam
Sister: Margaret
Wife: Helen Constance Robinson (m. 1963, div., one daughter)
Daughter: Natalie Gilbert
Wife: Susie Sacher (m. 1974, div., two sons)
Son: David
Son: Joshua
Wife: Esther Goldberg (m. 2005, until his death)

    High School: Highgate School, London
    University: BA Modern History, Magdalen College, Oxford University (1960)
    University: St. Antony's College, Oxford University
    Fellow: Merton College, Oxford University

    Commander of the British Empire 1990
    Knighthood 1995

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (27-Jul-2008) · Himself
    Super Sucker (24-Feb-2002)

Author of books:
The Appeasers (1963, history)
The European Powers, 1900-1945 (1965, history)
The Roots of Appeasement (1966, history)
Winston S. Churchill (1966-82, biography)
Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat, 1869-1941 (1973, biography)
Exile and Return: The Emergence of Jewish Statehood (1978, history)
Final Journey: The Fate of the Jews in Nazi Europe (1979, history)
Auschwitz and the Allies (1981, history)
Churchill's Political Philosophy (1981, politics)
The Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today (1984, history)
Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City (1985, history)
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy (1986, history)
Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time (1986, biography)
Second World War (1989, history)
Churchill: A Life (1991, biography)
First World War (1994, history)
The Day the War Ended: VE-Day 1945 in Europe and Around the World (1995, history)
Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century (1996, history)
The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity (1996, history)
From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century (2001, history)
Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5000-Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith (2002, history)
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (2002, history)
D-Day (2004, history)
Churchill and America (2005, history)
Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War (2006, history)
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction (2006, history)
In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands (2010, history)

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