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'Here is a remarkable book, admirably documented and most fairly presented.' Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Glasgow Herald '... an extraordinary compilation of detailed facts'. Michael Foot He is the author of the bestselling The Holocaust, and is the best-known writer on the Second World War First UK paperback edition

About the Author

Born in London in 1936 and now resident in north London, Sir Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School and Magdalene 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.