Sir Martin Gilbert

[Sir Martin Gilbert @SirMartin36]

On this day: 30 November 1874, Churchill was born, “That November, his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, then less than seven months pregnant, had slipped and fallen while walking with a shooting party at Blenheim Palace.” Get this book: Churchill, A Life
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[Sir Martin Gilbert @SirMartin36]

On this day: 22 November 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated, “the Kennedys flew to Dallas, where they had originally intended to drive quickly and directly from the airport to the Trade Mart, where Kennedy was to make a speech to a luncheon meeting.”
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On this day: 14/15 November 1940, Coventry bombed: “On 12 November 1940, Enigma decrypts read at the British Code and Cypher School at Bletchley revealed that a major German bombing raid was imminent. Its code name, Moonlight Sonata.”
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[Sir Martin Gilbert @SirMartin36]

Read Sir Martin’s November 2024 Book Club Choice
Churchill A Life
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Sir Martin's one-volume biography with a new foreword,
preface and historical note

[Sir Martin Gilbert @SirMartin36]

On this day: 11 November 1918, the First World War Armistice is signed, “The Imperial War Graves Commission maintains 2,500 military cemeteries in France and Flanders. The land for these cemeteries was given in perpetuity by the French and Belgian people.”
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On this day: 11 November 1918, the First World War ended, “... the German government signed an armistice and the guns fell silent.” Get the book:
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On this day: 9/10 November 1938, Kristallnacht, “Starting in the early hours of 10 November 1938, and continuing until nightfall, violence against the Jews of Germany was unleashed in a whirlwind of destruction.” Kristallnacht, Prelude to Destruction
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[Sir Martin Gilbert @SirMartin36]

Read Sir Martin's November 2024 Book Club offer:
Atlas of the First World War
The story of the Great War in all its theatres and drama,
newly revised and updated.
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On this day: 5 November 1924, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin asked Churchill to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. Winston S. Churchill, Volume V
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#OnThisDay “On the last day of October 1916, Russian losses were estimated at 4,670,000 killed and wounded, more than 1,000,000 missing, and 2,078,000 taken prisoner-of-war.” The First World War, A Complete History
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#OnThisDay 29 October 1956: “The start of the Sinai campaign came, in many ways, as a relief to the Israeli public, despite the inevitable uncertainties and casualties of war. .” Israel, A History
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#OnThisDay : 25 October 1936, (Sir Martin's birthday), Maurice Hankey, Neville Chamberlain, and Desmond Morton each write to Churchill to thank him for sending them a copy of his third volume of Marlborough.
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#OnThisDay 23 October 1942, General Montgomery launches an attack at El Alamein: “... Montgomery had under his command, along a forty mile front, 150,000 men – including Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans and British.”
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#OnThisDay 1953: “On October 16 Churchill learned that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. ” Churchill, A Life
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#OnThisDay 14 October 1066, William of Normandy defeats King Harold: “Having marched from York, Harold was defeated and killed at Hastings.” Routledge Atlas of British History https://t.co/drhqErElS6

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Read Sir Martin’s October 2024 Book Club Offer and receive 20% discount.
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Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust
The history of the Holocaust in maps and text, including the revolt at Auschwitz in October 1944.

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Read Sir Martin’s October 2024 Book Club Choice:
The Power of Words.
A collection of 200 readings of Churchill's writings and speeches, selected,edited and introduced by Sir Martin
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[Sir Martin Gilbert @SirMartin36]

#OnThisDay “On 8 October 1970, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia's most outspoken dissident writer. The citation noted the 'ethical force' with which he pursued the traditions of Russian literature.”
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