Research Catalog

Title

Henry 'Chips' Channon : the diaries: 1938-43 / Chips Channon, edited by Simon Heffer.

Author

Channon, Henry, 1898-1958

Publication

London : Hutchinson, 2021.

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Details

Additional Authors

Heffer, Simon

Description

xxii, 1,097 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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 Channon's subsequent exclusion from the corridors of power, his life changes - and with it the preoccupations and tone of the diaries. The conduct of the war remains a constant theme, but more personal preoccupations come increasingly to the fore. As he throws himself back into the pleasures of society, he records his encounters with the likes of Noël Coward, Prince Philip, General de Gaulle and Oscar Wilde's erstwhile lover Lord Alfred Douglas. He describes dinners with members of European royal dynasties, and recounts gossip and scandal about the great, the good and the less good. And he charts the implosion of his marriage and his burgeoning, passionate friendship with a young officer on Wavell's staff. --

Subject

• Channon, Henry, 1898-1958 > Diaries
• Channon, Henry, 1898-1958
• 1936-1945
• Politicians > Great Britain > Diaries
• Politicians
• Politics and government
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1936-1945
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

Diaries.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-7786

ISBN

• 9781786331823
• 1786331829

OCLC

1259535451

Author

Channon, Henry, 1898-1958, author.

Title

Henry 'Chips' Channon : the diaries: 1938-43 / Chips Channon, edited by Simon Heffer.

Publisher

London : Hutchinson, 2021.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1936-1945

Added Author

Heffer, Simon, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7786