Īfter the war, Gilbert attended Highgate School, where he was taught history by the Balkan expert Alan Palmer, and politics by T. Vivid memories of the transatlantic crossing from Liverpool to Quebec sparked his curiosity about the war in later years. Nine months after the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated to Canada as part of the British efforts to safeguard children. All four of his grandparents had been born in the Pale of Settlement in Tsarist Russia (today's Poland and Lithuania). Martin Gilbert was born in London, the first child of Peter Gilbert, a north London jeweller, and his wife, Miriam. He was a member of the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War. He was the author of eighty-eight books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust. Sir Martin John Gilbert CBE FRSL (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
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