Eric Lee is an author, journalist and historian.

He is 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 and the Society of Authors, and 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.

His most recent books are:

• The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism McFarland Publishers, 2025
• 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:

• Mole: Stalin and the Okhrana
• The International at War: How the World's Unions Helped to Defeat Nazi Germany
• First Blood: Rightist Terror in Israel and the Murder of Folke Bernadotte

His earlier books (no longer in print) include:

• The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism Pluto Press, 1996
• Saigon to Jerusalem: Conversations with Israel's Vietnam Veterans McFarland, 1991

Contact details

• Email: ericlee@labourstart.org
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• Blog: http://www.ericlee.info/blog/
• Phone: +44 7846658571