Chips : The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon

Chips : The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon by Robert Rhodes James. paperback edition. ISBN: 8601422647723.

Sir Henry Chips Channons extraordinary diaries,first published in 1967,are now considered a modern classic.The years covered in this volume,1934-53,recall a vanished world where Channons priviliged orbit circled every social and public figure of the day in a round of parties,balls,country-house weekends and endless gossip.His position as a MP enabled him to chronicle,famously,the Abdication Crisis,when King Edward VIIIs love for jolly,plainunprepossessing Mrs Simpson reduced him to a broken man at bay. Culled from some three million words in the original,Robert Rhodes Jamess selection gives us the moments and characters of history,etched indelibly by a master observer.