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Great Churchillians: Antoine Capet, Tribute to a Friend
15
Jul
2022
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
One the brightest stars in the Churchill firmament was lost on June 2nd. Our colleague Dave Turrell speaks for us all: “One of the nicest, kindest men I ever met.” Writes Paul Rafferty, whose great book on Churchill’s Riviera paintings was translated by Antoine: “He was a joy to work with. He was precise, knowledgeable, questioned everything, and got it ‘right.’ My French edition has few to zero errors to my knowledge, and this is down to Antoine.”
Great Contemporaries: Paul Reynaud, Some Answers and a Question
25
Jan
2022
Eccentric to a Fault: The Field Collection of Churchill “Stories”
05
Aug
2021
By ANTOINE CAPET
Dr. Field promises an array of obscure facts, and certainly delivers, to the point where one wonders where some of them came from.
Lord Woolton on the Battle to Feed Britain and Plan for the Future
04
Mar
2021
By ANTOINE CAPET
Churchill, Woolton wrote privately, “doesn’t seem to understand that nobody else wants rationing any more than he does...”
Churchill and the Channel Tunnel
18
Mar
2020
1
By ANTOINE CAPET
Churchill was an early and steady supporter of a Channel Tunnel, which was first proposed in 1751. For most of his life he joined in lively and almost continuous discussion of “a fixed link with the Continent.” Indeed, during the 1924-1929 Conservative government, Churchill was seen as “the leading political advocate of a tunnel.”
Churchill’s Official Biography: Origin, Methodology and Concordance
06
Mar
2020
By LARRY P. ARNN
Never Flinch, Never Weary, 1951-1965 is the twenty-third volume of documents in the official biography of Winston Churchill. Together with the narrative texts, the work comprises thirty-one volumes in all. It is the last step in a journey that began over half a century ago, but prepared for decades earlier.
McKercher and Capet on Churchill, War and War’s Aftermath
02
Oct
2019
By BRADLEY TOLPPANEN
McKercher and Capet have provided a collection of substantive and challenging essays. Their book offers many useful observations that will stimulate further historical discussion and scholarship.
Abstracts: Historians Survey Sir Winston’s Health in Old Age
06
Jun
2019
By ANTOINE CAPET
Medical historians find no evidence that Churchill suffered from major depression, but his health was subject to many ailments in his final decade.
Editions Le Sphinx: A Fine Illustrated Edition of Churchill’s War Memoirs
21
Mar
2019
1
By ANTOINE CAPET
Sphinx editors in Brussels were steeped in the war as Churchill described it. Their volumes offer a splendid collection of wartime photographs.
Savrola: Churchill’s Novel and Its Most Beautiful Appearance
28
Jan
2019
6
By ANTOINE CAPET
Many students of his canon consider that the hero is Churchill as he liked to imagine himself then. An appreciator of beauty and fine living, Savrola cannot live "in dreamy quiet and philosophic calm in some beautiful garden, far from the noise of men" while the life of the nation is at stake. "'Vehement, high and daring,' was his cast of mind. The life he lived was the only one he could ever live; he must go on to the end." Forty years later the novelist would exhort his countrymen: "We shall go on to the end....We shall never surrender."