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Diaries and Letters Vol. 3 (1945-1962) (Paperback, Main)
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Diaries and Letters Vol. 3 (1945-1962) (Paperback, Main)
Series: Harold Nicolson diaries and letters
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Harold Nicolson's Diaries and Letters, spanning the years 1930 to
1962, were first published in three volumes, and it is in this
format Faber Finds is reissuing them. The one-volume abridgement
available in paperback from Phoenix is practical, and in itself a
superb piece of compression, but such a great work, one of the
major diaries of the twentieth-century, deserves also to be
available in its full original incarnation. In this third volume we
see Harold Nicolson, though no longer a Member of Parliament, still
deeply involved in public affairs. He joins the Labour Party: he
attends the Nuremberg trials: he broadcasts from Paris on the
three-months peace-conference of 1946, and he gives an illuminating
account of the Suez crisis. But perhaps the most valuable political
aspect of this volume, as with the others, is the portraits and
private conversation of leading statesmen: Churchill in advancing
age, Macmillan on his way up and as Prime Minister, Eden, Smuts,
Bevin and many others. 'One of the best diaries in the language'
Michael Foot 'Nowhere are his style and cultivation more truly
reflected than in his diaries and letters, edited with skill and
candour by his son Nigel . . . Full of witty and intimate pictures
of the famous and immediate comments on the great events of the
time, they were very much more than a record of classy hobnobbings,
for few excelled Nicolson in the art of self-revelation and no
lesser diarist could have made so moving and fascinating a thing of
the relationship between himself and his wife, Vita Sackville-West,
and his sons.' The Times
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