![]() Sir Martin’s film and television work included a documentary series on the life of Winston Churchill. He also wrote, as part of his series of ten historical atlases, Atlases of the First World War and Atlas of the Second World War. ![]() Sir Martin Gilbert passed away on February 3, 2015, in London.ĭuring forty-eight years of research and writing, Sir Martin published eighty-eight 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. Over the next four decades, he wrote and published six volumes of the Churchill biography and twelve volumes of Churchill documents. 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. He was a graduate of Oxford University, from which he held a Doctorate of Letters, an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College. Sir Martin Gilbert was born in England in 1936. ![]()
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