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"Chips": The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon

by Chips Channon (Author), Robert Rhodes James (Editor)

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    Paperback 1996

    $10.28
Synopsis

Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon's 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 Channon's 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 VIII's love for 'jolly,plain'unprepossessing' Mrs Simpson reduced him to 'a broken man at bay'. Culled from some three million words in the original,Robert Rhodes James's selection gives us the moments and characters of history,etched indelibly by a master observer.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 512
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 05 Aug 1996
ISBN 10: 1857994930
ISBN 13: 9781857994933
Book Overview: 'Chips' Channon's diaries are now considered to be a modern classic Roberts Rhodes James's biographies have won many awards,including the Heinemann Award,(Rosebery),the Yorkshire Post Book Of The Year Award (Anthony Eden),and the LLewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize (An Introduction to the House Of Commons) Robert Rhodes James is a distinguished politician in his own right