Eric Lee is the author of six published books, including two recent books on modern Georgian history:

The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution 1918 – 1921 (Zed / Bloomsburg, 2017)

Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April – May 1945 (Greenhill Books, 2020).

In the Russian Review, Dr Stephen Jones, the Director of the Program on Georgian Studies at Harvard University, called The Experiment “a lively text on a neglected but fascinating period in the history of socialism … The book will attract much interest among Europeans thinking about alternatives to authoritarian socialism or neo-liberalism. The author has performed an important service by highlighting a fascinating period in Georgian, European, and world history.”

Joshua Rubinstein reviewed The Experiment for The New York Times. He wrote: “Stirred by his long fascination with Georgia’s history, Lee has written an account of that country’s short-lived experiment as a democratic socialist republic after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 … As Lee reminds us, this Menshevik-dominated government backed free elections, freedom of the press, an independent judiciary, parliamentary rule and free trade unions.”

A recognised expert on twentieth-century Georgia, Lee was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by Ilia State University in Tbilisi. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK).

In addition to his books on Georgian history, Lee has authored two recent books about the Second World War:

Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler’s Commando Order (The History Press, 2016), called “riveting” in a review in The Wall Street Journal.

Britain’s Plot to Kill Hitler: The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE was published by Greenhill Books in 2022.

Lee is the founding editor of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement and is a lifelong trade unionist and democratic socialist. He was a leading figure in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential campaigns of Senator Bernie Sanders, coordinating efforts among Americans living overseas to elect delegates to support the self-styled democratic socialist.