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  • The Harold Nicolson Diaries

    1907-1964

    by Harold Nicolson ...
    One of the great 20th century political diaries'Brilliant, riveting stuff' TRIBUNE'One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on every page, as evident as the wit' EVENING STANDARD'A tremendous read' SPECTATORHarold Nicolson was one of the three great political diarists of the 20th century (along with Chips Channon and Alan Clark). Nicolson wa... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Some People

    by Harold Nicolson ...
    On the face of it, bracketing Harold Nicolson and Vladimir Nabokov seems unexpected but the latter paid a remarkable tribute to Some People. When speaking to Harold Nicolson's son, Nigel, he confessed that all his life he had been fighting against the influence of ***Some People.***' The style of that book is like a drug', he said. The critic and biographer, Stacy Schiff, has also admitted ' Some ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Why Britain is at War

    With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts

    by Harold Nicolson ...
    "If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world"First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with Germany. In simple terms it describes the stages of Adolf Hitler's ruthless pursuit for power, identifies his methods of deception and false ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Peacemaking, 1919

    by Harold Nicolson ...
    'Of all branches of human endeavour, diplomacy is the most protean.' That is how Harold Nicolson begins this book. It is an apt opening. The Paris Conference of 1919, attended by thirty-two nations, had the supremely challenging task of attempting to bring about a lasting peace after the global catastrophe of the Great War.Harold Nicolson was a member of the British delegation. His book is in two ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart, First Lord Carnock

    A Study in the Old Diplomacy

    by Harold Nicolson ...
    Without exaggeration this can be said to be two books in one: it is both a biography of Harold Nicolson's father and a history of British diplomacy from the late nineteenth-century until the middle of the First World War.Described as 'the quintessential diplomat' Sir Arthur's various postings took in Berlin, Peking, Athens, Teheran, Budapest, Constantinople, Madrid and St Petersburg. During his ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Programme for Victory (Works of Harold J. Laski)

    by Harold J. Laski, Harold Nicolson, Herbert Read, W. M. Macmillan, Ellen Wilkinson, G. D. H. Cole ...
    Series series The Works of Harold J. Laski
    Written two years after the commencement of the Second World War, the chapters in this book succinctly put forward the case for reorganizing the foundations of the social order, by rejecting capitalism and historical equilibrium, both in Europe and further afield in the British Empire, in favour of building a Socialist civilization. ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Portrait Of A Marriage

    Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

    by Nigel Nicolson MBE, Vita Sackville-West ...
    The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from Juliet Nicolson.'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments' GUARDIAN'An intimate and controversial account of his bisexual parents' open relationship' NEW YORK TIMES'One of the most ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Diaries, 1942-1954

    by Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne ...
    The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)

    1938-43

    by Chips Channon ...
    **The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon.'A masterpiece - a time machine that transports the reader back to British politics and high society at the end of the 1930s.' Robert Harris'The uncensored, unvarnished thought of one of the 20th century's greatest diarists. - Best Biographies of the Year, Telegraph'An unrivalled guide to the social and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Diaries, 1971-1983

    by James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch ...
    Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate of the eccentric Duke of Beaufort, meetings with many friends (including John Betjeman, Bruce ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Diaries, 1984-1997

    by James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch ...
    This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose

    Volume One 1944-1979

    by Kenneth Rose ...
    'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for over seventy years. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD