LEADER 00000cam a22006617i 4500 001 3hl7xwww1dtpz91v 008 210906s2021 xxka||||||||||001 0deng|c 020 9781786331816|qinbunden 041 eng 082 04 941.082092|223/swe 084 Lz Channon, Henry|2kssb/8 092 0 941 Channon|bengelska 100 1 Channon, Henry,|d1898-1958|4aut 245 14 The diaries|nVolume 1|p1918-38 /|cHenry 'Chips' Channon ; edited by Simon Heffer 264 1 London :|bHutchinson,|c2021 300 xx, 1002 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates |billustrations|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 490 1 Diaries.|vv. 1 500 Includes index 500 "This is the first of three volumes of the diaries of 'Chips' Channon"--Dustjacket 520 Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by turns, they are the unfettered observations of a man who went everywhere and who knew everybody. Whether describing the antics of London society in the interwar years, or the growing scandal surrounding his close friends Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson during the abdication crisis, or the mood in the House of Commons in the lead up to the Munich crisis, his sense of drama and his eye for the telling detail are unmatched. These are diaries that bring a whole epoch vividly to life. A heavily abridged and censored edition of the diaries was published in 1967. Only now, sixty years after Chips's death, can an extensive text be shared 600 14 Channon, Henry,|d1898-1958 648 7 1936-1945|2fast 650 7 Politiker|2sao 650 7 Politiska förhållanden|2sao 651 7 Storbritannien|2sao 655 7 Dagböcker|2saogf 700 1 Heffer, Simon|4edt 800 1 Channon, Henry,|d1898-1958|tDiaries.|kSelections ;|vvolume 1
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