Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Martin Gilbert was born in London in 1936 and educated at Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1962, he became research assistant to Randolph Churchill and, after Randolph’s death, succeeded him as biographer of Sir Winston Churchill. He is the author of many works of history and lives in London and Jerusalem.
A HISTORY OF THE JEWS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
"No cloacal imagery, no savage indignation, and no elaborate interpretation will ever capture the nauseating realities of the Holocaust more exactly than this masterpiece of the chronicler's craft"
PIERS BRENDON, 'The Times'
"This tome is an archivist's Kaddish, the never-to-be-silenced act of remembrance and prayer for the dead"
GEORGE STEINER, 'Sunday Times'
"He has done more than any historian for those who are forever silent. One reads his book with bleeding eyes"
NORA LEVIN, 'KRA'
"By far the most painful book I have ever read or am ever likely to read"
GERALD KAUFMAN, 'Manchester Evening News'
"Likely to remain the standard history of the Holocaust"
CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN, 'Observer'
"Meticulously documented"
GEOFFREY BEST, 'Guardian'
"Heartbreaking"
LORD BELOFF, 'Daily Telegraph'
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Martin Gilbert was born in London in 1936 and educated at Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1962, he became research assistant to Randolph Churchill and, after Randolph’s death, succeeded him as biographer of Sir Winston Churchill. He is the author of many works of history and lives in London and Jerusalem.