The translator : Colin Partridge lives in Alderney where he runs an architectural practice, while continuing his research and writing on the military and naval history of the Channel Islands. He si the autor of Hitler's Atlantic Wall (1976), and Mirus : The Making of Battery (1983). A past president and review editor of the C.I.O.S., he was for twelve years military historical consultant to the Fortress Guernsey programme for the restoration and interpretation of that island's historic fortifications.
He was one for only two British speakers invited to address the Vauban Tercentenary Conference in Cherbourg. He is a Jurat and former chairman of the Court of Alderney, appointed O.B.E in the Queen's Birthday Honours List on his retirement from the court in 2012.