Thanks Sandy and Cita for the kind words, but I played just a bit part as one of the editors-perusers of this gigantic screed. The real thanks are owed to Soren Geiger and our Churchill student Associates, graduate and undergraduate, who started with Martin Gilbert's "wodges" of documents--virtually one wodge for each day of Churchill's life. They separated the wheat from the chaff, laboriously researched the extensive footnotes identifying people, places and things, and put a smooth draft in front of us.
And then, overall, a great debt is owed the editor-in-chief, Hillsdale President Larry Arnn, for the determination and effort to finish Martin Gilbert's monumental work, in the way Sir Martin himself would have--leaving out nothing of substance. (And the electronic edition will be a huge assist to researchers.) As Gilbert's researcher back in the 1970s, Dr. Arnn hefted an enormous Document Volume and quipped, "You know, only about 20 people are going to read this cover to cover!" Martin replied: "Makes no difference. The important thing is that the documents are there—and nobody will be able to write authoritative about these subjects in future without consulting them." I always thought this captured the true essence of the work. Over the next few weeks several scholars will post articles focusing on interesting aspects of 1943-44 in the Churchill saga, brought out by the new volume. Stay tuned and subscribe to winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
