Marcus Gibson

Marcus Gibson, has worked as a research journalist for more than 30 years at The Financial Times, The European newspaper and BBC Radio News R4, focusing on general news and, most recently, on British enterprise and emerging small technology companies. His collection of FT articles takes up 200 pages on archive site Factiva.  

He has reported from three Olympic Games, from Bosnia in the early 1990s and on major news stories such as the sinking of the Baltic ferry ‘Estonia’. He has also contributed to Time magazine, South China Morning Post and The Melbourne Age. 

In 2004 he started Gibson Index Ltd, a company that researches and compiles information on 70,000 UK SMEs. Its database is used by the UK Dept of Business, universities and corporations. He has written two books: in 1984, he edited ‘The Dictionary of the British Heritage’ for Cambridge University Press, and co-wrote in 2004, ‘Bootstrapping Your Business’, with US software entrepreneur Greg Gianforte.  

Marcus was educated at Stowe. He lives in London. 

Marcus Gibson signed a contract with Chiselbury to publish a ground-breaking study detailing for the first time the true scale of the war-winning impact of RAF Bomber Command during WW2.  It will be published in late-Summer 2024

The book, titled ‘Grand Slam: How RAF Bomber Command Won WW2’, forensically challenges the widely repeated claims that the campaign was ‘ineffective, costly and even a war crime’ and goes on to show, with painstaking analysis of British, American, [Soviet?] and German archives, that it was in fact an undoubted game-changer in ensuring the ultimate defeat of the Nazi Regime.

It was not just the direct effect that the nightly bombing campaign wrought on German industrial production that had such an impact. It is also the knock-on effects that forced the Nazis to take actions and make decisions that ultimately were disastrous for their war effort.

These far-reaching consequences included drastically easing the Red Army’s advance in the East; the massive diversion of resources to make Hitler’s revenge V-weapons; and the necessity to build vast bomb-proof bunkers and factories across Europe.

Controversially Grand Slam proves conclusively that the raid on Dresden in February 1945 was entirely justified as a military-industrial target, and that very few German civilians were truly as innocent as many historians have claimed. 

This book will be the first, comprehensive analysis that profiles the full spectrum of RAF Bomber Command’s achievements – and it will fundamentally change our view, once and for all, of the immensity of their contribution.