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Churchill and America
Free Press 2005; US$ 30.99In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century. Winston Churchill, whose mother, Jennie Jerome, the daughter of a leading American... more...
Winston Churchill's War Leadership
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 13.00How does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him? How does he deal with setbacks and disasters? In this brilliant close-up look at Winston Churchill's leadership during the Second World War, Gilbert gets to the... more...
In Ishmael's House
McClelland & Stewart 2010; US$ 21.00From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan. In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and Muslims. Beginning at the dawn of Islam and sweeping from the... more...
The Will of the People
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 13.50The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchill?s lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life ? of his working days and nights ? was spent in the cut and thrust of debate in the service... more...
Continue to Pester, Nag and Bite
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 17.95Renowned Churchill historian Sir Martin Gilbert examines Winston Churchill?s War Leadership. Continue to Pester, Nag and Bite is the complete text of the 2004 Barbara Frum Historical Lecture, given at the University of Toronto. This annual lecture ?on a subject of contemporary interest in historical perspective? was established in memory of Barbara... more...
The Day the War Ended
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 8.99One of Britain?s most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last to Europe as the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five years and eight months, the war in... more...
The Righteous
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 22.99The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world." Non-Jews who helped save Jewish lives... more...
The Somme
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 18.99From one of our most distinguished historians, an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than 300,000 lives At 7:30 am on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into no-man's-land toward the barbed wire and machine guns... more...
Winston Churchill - the Wilderness Years
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 18.00In 1928, Winston Churchill was at the height of his career. Chancellor of the Exchequer and a powerful and popular orator, leadership of the Conservative Party seemed within his grasp. A year later, all had changed. The Conservatives were defeated and, when a National Government was formed in 1931, Churchill was not asked to join it. Though he was... more...
The Routledge Atlas of British History
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95The evolving story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales ? and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain?s overseas empire. This new edition includes: Politics ? from the Saxon kingdoms and the collapse of England?s French Empire... more...









