Sir Martin Gilbert CBE, D Litt, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian of the modern world, is the author of 88 books, including among them 11 books on Jewish themes including histories of Israel, of Jerusalem, and of Jews in the diaspora, 9 books on aspects of the Holocaust, and 9 atlases in the Routledge Historical Atlas series. For more information please visit [...]

Section One: The Biblical Period, First and Second Exiles (2000 BC to 1000 AD) / Section Two: Before and into the Middle Ages (1000-1500 AD) / Section Three: Expulsions and the Rise of Zionism and other "Zions" (1000-1939) 1500-1860 / Section Four: The need for Zionism and the development of Jewry in modernity (1860-1900) / Section Five: The Jewish National Home (1880-1937) / Section Six: The Lead up to and the Second World War (1933-1946) / Section Seven: The Ingathering and Statehood Achieved (1946-1992) / Section Eight: The Twenty-first Century