LONDON: Part of the heavy routine undertaken daily by Britain’s former Prime Minister Mr. Winston Churchill [is] the dictation of his memoirs, which include a political history of the past as he sees it. Reports of an early publication of this kind from the pen of Britain’s war leader are incorrect. The facts are, that the work of dictation is still in progress and a great deal has yet to be done before Mr. Churchill has exhausted his fund of memories and his storehouse of knowledge and comment.

The work that Mr. Churchill has managed to dictate so far is partly in the note-books of his secretary and partly on dictaphone rolls. The dictated matter is transcribed and typed on paper with broad margins.

Mr. Churchill then makes marginal amendments and additions in his bold hand-writing.

If the past is any guide to the future, Mr. Churchill’s memories of World War II will run to six volumes.

His memoirs of World War I which were published over a period of eight years ran to six volumes, the first, covering the period [between] 1911 to 1915, being published in April 1923. This was four and a half years after the Armistice.

Published in Dawn, January 10th, 2022