Death of Holocaust historian
mainWe regret to share news of the death of Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill’s official biographer, an advisor to prime minister Tony Blair, and an energetic historian of the Holocaust.
He was 78 and had been in poor health for several years.
Gilbert was a member of the ongoing Chilcott Inquiry into the Iraq War.
Sir Gilbert supported the invasion of Iraq and famously said that one day Bush and Blair would be compared to Roosevelt and Churchill… See:
http://observer.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,,1379819,00.html