Chips : the diaries of Sir Henry Channon
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Chips : the diaries of Sir Henry Channon
（A Phoenix paperback）
Phoenix, 1996
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'Chips' : the diaries of Sir Henry Channon
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"First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1967. New edition first published in Weidenfeld paperback in 1993"--T.p. verso
Includes index
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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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