This exchange of emails re Richards book, says much for Churchilians, on the one hand a complimentary note in amongst which praise is tempered by some polite criticism and the other where the points raised in criticism are confirmed as being correct.
David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Editor/Finest Hour Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 8:25 AM To: ChurchillChat Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: Langworth's New book Gents: "Winston" is quite right. I was given 12hrs to write the captions and at least four of them are wrong: page 1 (what a page for a clanger--Anderson not Attlee, May not April); 144 (Yalta not Teheran), 532 (bedroom not study). On page 11 of the British edition (corrected in the American), WSC is in a tommy's helmet inspecting Dover's defenses in 1943, not a poilu's helmet in WW1. And, on 380, he's probably not campaigning in Woodford. However, this is one of the few books to offer errata and addenda seriatum on the web, see http://xrl.us/j2uc8. Most of them are mine, not Churchill's. (In only one case did I find Churchill to be factually wrong--a simple dating error. Of course this excludes debates about German rearmament, for example.) Popular quotes of others by Churchill are identified, not deprecated. They are tributes to his broad reading and photographic memory. He would not wish to be credited with words he did not originate. Creating a book as complicated as this is a constant running battle between conflicting sources, experts who disagree with each other and inexorable deadlines. Twenty nits are combed out of the second U.S. printing. The rest will be corrected in the next printing, as Churchill said to Bernard Shaw, "if there is one." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
