When: 05/10/2010

Where: Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue, Norrice Lea

Time: 19:30

Contact: 020 7723 9991

Price: £10 + £1 booking fee

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Sir Martin Gilbert is the author of more than eighty books, including the six-volume authorised biography of Winston Churchill, the twin histories, First World War and Second World War, Israel: A History; The Holocaust; A History of the Twentieth Century in three volumes, and nine pioneering historical atlases, including Atlas of Jewish History and Atlas of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1995, he was knighted for services to British history and international relations, and in 2009, he was appointed to the British government's Iraq War Inquiry. He lives in London.
In Ishmael's House sheds light on a time of prosperity and opportunity for Jews in Muslim lands stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan, with many instances of Muslim openness, support and courage. Drawing on Jewish, Christian and Muslim sources, Gilbert uses archived material, poems, letters, memoirs and personal testimony to uncover the human voice of this centuries-old conflict. His detailed and wide-ranging chronicle of a complex story provides new perspectives on current events ad his moving account of tolerance also offers a possible template for the future.