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“... in a culture deeply inimical to both, are just some of the subjects that demand attention.’ Alex Danchev has given him a lot of what he wanted. Liddell Hart completed his apprenticeship to Fuller and became the most widely influential advocate of radical reform in the British Army, its armoured department especially, which for a few interwar years ...”

“... as ‘a sort of God of painting’. Picasso said that ‘he was like the father of us all.’ As Alex Danchev shows in his engaging and well-researched biography, Cézanne himself spent his life fighting free of a father whose approval he never ceased to crave. He was five before his father married his mother. Not unlike Balzac’s Père ...”

“... traps; it is deeply researched, stylishly written and unusually insightful about its subject. For Alex Danchev, whose academic field was international relations but whose many books include lives of Cézanne and Braque, this was a last labour of love; he died suddenly in 2016 before completing the final chapter.There is no getting around certain ...”

“... the great adventure of Cubism still retains all its excitement, whether in the direct narrative of Alex Danchev’s impressive (and first ever) biography of Braque, or in oblique illustration. Landscape in Provence 1750-1920 seems at first like a nice warm show for a cold Quebec afternoon. It begins with a century and more of proper professional ...”

“... There was even a Combined Chiefs of Staff with a general jurisdiction over global strategy. But Alex Danchev, who depicts its inner workings, concludes that it was an extremely fragile organisation, viewed with considerable reservations on both sides. ‘We are all in favour of give and take,’ wrote Sir Alan Brooke, ‘but cannot help feeling that it ...”

“... little a ‘people person’. His wish may have been to address every genre, but as his biographer Alex Danchev puts it, ‘a Cezanne portrait is more a thereness than a likeness.’ Witness the implacably non-empathetic studies of Hortense, the woman he married. Only their adored son seems to slip under the defensive barriers behind which his father ...”