![]() In addition to his Churchill work, Gilbert has been a pioneer in the design and publication of historical atlases, and has written a general history of the Holocaust, one-volume histories of the First and the Second World War, and a three-volume history of the twentieth century. He has also published, as part of the biography, Churchill: A Photographic Portrait (also available in Pirnlico). In addition to these narrative volumes, Gilbert has continued to edit the multi-volume documentary series of Churchill's letters and documents. The eighth and final volume was published in 1988. On Randolph's death in 1968, Gilbert was asked to complete the biography. In 1962 he was elected to a Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, and in the same year became one of the research assistants to Randolph Churchill, then writing the first two volumes of his father's official biography. After two years' National Service he read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. ![]() CHURCHILL A Life Martin Gilbert was born in London in 1936. ![]()
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