(Nov.) FYI: See review of another Gilbert book below. This, plus a strong narrative style, helps to elevate this title above the dry and dusty lengthy historical treatise. In this masterful book, prize-winning historian and authorized Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert weaves together the research from his eight-volume. Sir Martin Gilbert, who has died aged 78, was a historian of authority and meticulous scholarship, whose output was dominated by his official biography of Sir Winston Churchill: six narrative. In the expanded attic room of Martin Gilbert’s Victorian house in London there is a desk, 30 feet long and U-shaped, which has held in its working career much of the life of Winston Churchill. Myriad sources include standard fare-reference books, newspaper quotes, diplomatic documents-but also private journals, diaries and even novels and poems. Reviewed by Noel Taylor in Finest Hour 71 Reprinted by courtesy of the Ottawa Citizen. Martin Gilbert wrote the definitive Churchill biography, and this book is more or less a spin-off of that gigantic effort. Mingled with the wars, assassinations and national confrontations of the period are the more constructive developments-the wireless, internal combustion engine, air travel. He was the author of eightyeight books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history. He is a longtime Churchill bibliophile and collector. Sir Martin Gilbert CBE FRSL (25 October 1936 3 February 2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. Turrell has recently retired from a lifetime career in Information Technology. The years leading up to and including WWI receive major attention, but the author does not neglect such other watersheds as the rise of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Randolph Churchill, Sir Martin Gilbert, Larry Arnn, and their respective research teams have, across the years, collectively presented us with a towering fragment of reality.

This first of three volumes spans the years from the end of the Victorian era to the inauguration of Franklin D. Gilbert, a British historian knighted for his work, which includes a multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and a comprehensive history of the Holocaust, presents a year-by-year account of the era 1900-1933.

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