Talk:Arms and the Covenant

strange
This is an impt. book. Why is the page so brief?74.239.209.92 (talk) 09:20, 30 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Simply because no-one has expanded it yet. Which one can presume is just through chance. Have a search around for reliable sources that discuss the book - Google doesn't find much, but surely some newspaper (even newspapers of the time) should mention it, and any decent biography of Churchill should discuss it. Then expand the article based on facts you can find in these sources. You could ask for help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history as well. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 10:10, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Title
There has been a little to-and-fro over the name. While the name While England Slept may be the US title, the book was first published in the UK as Arms and the Covenant—the name by which it is still available today (although I see the US title is also available in the UK.) As both are still correct, we defer to the original and extant versions, and the publications of a British prime minister, first published in Britain and still available in Britain take precedence over whatever a US publisher chooses to call it: for the original market Arms and the Covenant is the COMMONNAME. The following list the book under the title Arms and the Covenant. The first two are US sources and reference the fact that US editions carry a different name: the final three are UK publicatons and don't even bother to mention the US title.


 * Kitzan, Laurence (1990). "Sir Winston Churchill". In Beum, Robert. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern British Essayists. Detroit: Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-8103-4580-5.
 * Kitzan, Laurence (2007). "Sir Winston Churchill". In Bruccoli, Darren. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature. Detroit: Gale Research. ISBN 978-1-4144-2863-5.
 * Nudd, Kevin (June 1990). "Winston Churchill's Early Books". The Book and Magazine Collector (Diamond Publishing Group) (75).
 * Thomas, David A (February 1986). "The Historical Works of Sir Winston Churchill". The Book and Magazine Collector (Diamond Publishing Group) (24).
 * Thomas, David A (January 1987). "The Speeches of Sir Winston Churchill". The Book and Magazine Collector (Diamond Publishing Group) (34).

- SchroCat (talk) 07:23, 16 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Well, since not many people would question that Churchill is rather English (despite the occasional American mother), and since the English title came first, it would seem beyond question that the English title has precedence. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:55, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Reference section
The link in the Reference section does not work for me. I would suggest that some one confirm and if also not working for them, fix or remove it. Slipandslide (talk) 01:29, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Fixing good; removing bad. See WP:Link rot. TJRC (talk) 15:16, 19 July 2019 (UTC)