Martin Gilbert Biography and latest books by Martin Gilbert

Sir Martin Gilbert was born in 1936 in London. He was evacuated to Canada as a child after the outbreak of the Second World War as part of the British efforts to evacuate children and bring them to safety. His memories of this evacuation attempt whetted his appetite for knowledge about the war. He studied at Highgate School and read History at Magdalen College in Oxford. He passed out with a First Class in Modern History and he was taught by APJ Taylor. He pursued his research work at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford.

Randolph Churchill had approached him to write a biography on his father Sir Winston Churchill. He completed six volumes of the biography project. She was also assisted by Mary Churchill while working on these volumes. He was awarded a ‘Knighthood’ ‘for services to British history and international relations’. He earned a Doctorate from Oxford University. His most widely-acclaimed works apart from the biographies are The Holocaust, The First World War, and The Second World War.