Chips : The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon

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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.