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Sir Martin John Gilbert CBE FRSL (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) [1] [2] was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill , the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust .
The Jews of Hope, a 1985 book by Martin Gilbert, was described as the spiritual successor to The Jews of Silence. A 2001 conference in Moscow entitled "From the Jews of Silence to the Jews of Triumph" discussed the triumph of the movement with the term "Jews of silence" used "to describe the state of affairs prior to the emergence of [the ...
The Samu incident or Battle of Samu was a large cross-border assault on 13 November 1966 by Israeli military on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu in response to an al-Fatah land mine attack two days earlier near the West Bank border, which killed three Israeli soldiers on a border patrol.
Fori Nehru met Martin Gilbert in 1958. [2] He was a friend of her son Ashok, from university days, and later historian and official biographer of Winston Churchill. [2] When Gilbert arrived at the Nehru home that year he was unwell, and he later recounted that she successfully nursed him to recovery with rice and yoghurt. [2]
According to Sir Martin Gilbert, when the Nazis came to Rome in search of Jews, Pius had already "A few days earlier... personally ordered the Vatican clergy to open the sanctuaries of the Vatican City to all "non-Aryans" in need of refuge. By morning of October 16, a total of 477 Jews had been given shelter in the Vatican and its enclaves ...
Mr Martin was asked on Sunday whether Ireland’s political stance was a factor in the difficulties it was encountering getting its citizens out of the territory, with Israel potentially seeking ...
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Martin Gilbert, The Jews in the Twentieth Century. An Illustrated History (Schocken Books, 2001) ISBN 0-8052-4190-6 pp. 218–220 Damien Lewis, SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers, (Hachette UK, 2017) ISBN 1786483130 , 9781786483133