Paul Johnson, the distinguished historian and journalist who was a loyal supporter of Israel and the Jewish people, has died at the age of 94.
His book A History of the Jews, published in 1987, was an international best-seller.
Mr Johnson was a Roman Catholic who published many other works of history, including A History of the Modern World (1983), another global best-seller, and A History of the American People (1997).
Educated at the Catholic public school Stonyhurst and Magdalen College, Oxford, he became a journalist after National Service. He joined the left-wing weekly the New Statesman and became editor in 1965. Under his leadership it achieved its highest-ever circulation of 94,000.
