Eric Lee is an author, journalist and historian.

He is also the founding editor of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement, which was launched in 1998.

He is a member of the Labour Party, the Society of Authors, and the Writers Guild of Great Britain.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

In May 2022, he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Recent books

His four most recent books are:

Britain's Plot to Kill Hitler: The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE Greenhill Books, 2022
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge - April-May 1945 Greenhill Books, 2020
The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 Zed Books, 2017
Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order The History Press, 2016

His upcoming books include:

The August Uprising 1924: Georgia and the Birth of Democratic Socialism (2024)
The Eremin Letter: Stalin and the Okhrana
The International at War: How the World's Unions Helped to Defeat Nazi Germany

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Contact details

Email: ericlee@labourstart.org
Skype: erictlee
Phone: +44 7846 658 571