Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters 1930-39 1939-45 and 1945-62. Three volumes 

Harold Nicolson was one of the three great political diarists of the 20th century (along with Chips Channon and Alan Clark). Nicolson was an MP (Conservative, 1935-45, who also flirted with Labour after WWII). He had previously been in the Foreign Office and attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and material from his period is included in this new edition for the first time.

Nicolson never achieved high office, but rarely a day went by when he didnt record what was going on at Westminster. He socialised widely, was married to the poet and author Vita Sackville-West, and together they created the famous garden at Sissinghurst. Both were bi-sexuals and had affairs outside their marriage. 

The diversity of Harold Nicolsons interests and the irony in his writing make his diary a highly entertaining record of his life and times, as well as a document of great historical value.

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Harold Nicolson kept a diary from the moment he resigned from the Foreign Office at the end of 1929 until Oct. 1964. This volume covers the period from the beginning of the diary until the outbreak of war. It is an imcomparable record of those years, composed by a man who knew almost every major figure of his times and was endowed with the ability to describe what he heard, saw and did and to communicate what he felt. But it is also a portrait of his marriage to the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West.

Binding: Hard cover with dust jacket. 

Book Condition: Good.

Edition:

1930-1939 Third Impression 1967. Dust jacket price-clipped.

1939-1945: 1967 First Edition. Not price-clipped

1945-1962: 1968 Not price-clipped

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