Author Biography

Sir Martin Gilbert was born in England in 1936. He is a graduate of Oxford University, from which he holds a Doctorate of Letters, and is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 1962 he began work as one of Randolph Churchill s research assistants, and in 1968, after Randolph Churchill s death, he became the official biographer of Winston Churchill. Since then he has published six volumes of the Churchill biography, and has edited to date twelve volumes of Churchill documents. As a Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, Michigan, he is currently completing the Churchill document volumes.During forty-eight years of research and writing, Sir Martin has published eighty books, including "The First World War, The Second World War, The Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War, D-Day, The Day the War Ended, "and a three-volume "History of the Twentieth Century." He has also written, as part of his series of ten historical atlases, "Atlas of the First World War, " and, most recently," Atlas of the Second World War."Sir Martin s film and television work has included a documentary series on the life of Winston Churchill. His other published works include "Churchill: A Photographic Portrait, In Search of Churchill, Churchill and America, "and the single volume "Churchill, A Life.""