Henry Chips Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 ISBN-13: 9781786331823

ISBN-13: 9781786331823

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Channon, Chips

Details: The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon.

This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry Chips Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the Prime Minister so admired by Chips was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, reflects: The war must be more than half over.

For much of this period, Channon is genuinely an eye-witness to unfolding events. He reassures Neville Chamberlain as he fights for his political life in May 1940. He chats to Winston Churchill while the two men inspect the bombed-out chamber of the House of Commons a few months later. From his desk at the Foreign Office he charts the progress of the war. But with the departure of his boss Rab Butler to the Ministry of Education, and Channons subsequent exclusion from the corridors of power, his life changes – and with it the preoccupations and tone of the diaries.

Release Date: 15-01-2022

Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 2.3 inches

Languages: English

Part Number: 9781786331823

Number Of Pages: 1120