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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 .
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]
Martin Gilbert; Ian Gooderson; Christina Goulter; ... Martin Windrow; Derek Wood (author) This page was last edited on 25 April 2020, at 18:29 (UTC). ...
The Churchill family controls many of the documents and has authorized an 8-volume official biography. It was started by his son Randolph Churchill (1911–1968) and finished after his death by Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), a scholar at Oxford.
An important step in Taylor's "rehabilitation" was a festschrift organised in his honour by Martin Gilbert in 1965. He was honoured with two more festschriften , in 1976 and 1986. The festschriften were testaments to his popularity with his former students as receiving even a single festschrift is considered to be an extraordinary and rare honour.
When author Ann M. Martin published the first book in her beloved series The Baby-Sitters Club in August 1986, she had no inkling that the characters she created would go on to appear in more than ...
Martin Gilbert, historian Richard Gombrich , scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist Studies, currently Founder-President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Giles Henderson , Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at prominent U.S. think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, died Thursday. He ...