Diaries

Diaries by Alan Clark. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781857991420.

The first volume of Alan Clarks diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries are all subjected to Clarks vivid and often wittily acerbic pen, as he candidly records the daily struggle for ascendancy within the corridors of power.