Even if the tutoring was only for one hour a day, he told his mother, ‘I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure’.
Martin Gilbert
Even if the tutoring was only for one hour a day, he told his mother, ‘I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure’.
Sir Martin John Gilbert (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust.
He was a member of the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War.
