Gilbert describes himself as a proud practising Jew and a Zionist. Since 2005, he has been married to the Holocaust historian Esther Gilbert, née Goldberg. He had two sons with his second wife, Susan Sacher, whom he married in 1974. In 1963, he married Helen Constance Robinson, with whom he had a daughter. After his graduation, Gilbert undertook postgraduate research at St Antony's College, Oxford. After the war he attended Highgate School, and then completed two years of National Service in the Intelligence Corps before going on to study at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1960 with a first-class BA in modern history. Vivid memories of the transatlantic crossing from Liverpool to Quebec sparked his curiosity about the war in later years. Nine months after the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated to Canada as part of the British efforts to safeguard children. Gilbert was born in London to Peter and Miriam Gilbert. 6.3 Other biographies and history books.
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