This is an auction for HAROLD NICOLSON'S DIARIES & LETTERS 1939-1945.

Edited by Nigel Nicolson (Harold's second son).

Goodreads review:

"To lose his Government post after a year and spend the rest of the rest of the War as a backbencher was a grievous trial for Harold Nicolson. Yet it is precisely this middle-distance view that made him a superb recorder of those tumultuous times from 1939 to 1945. Ever since 1930, Nicolson had consigned to his journals the rich overflow of a capacious mind, honed by the disciplines of scholar, diplomat and writer. Now, within the context of total war, these diaries became a precious storehouse for heightened emotions and sudden insights, for touching vignettes of Britain under fire and daily barometric readings of hope or despair. Through their pages runs a warm, witty mosaic of casual talk, reflecting his wide interests and talent for friendship. Even the towering Churchill gains a fresh, human profile made up of many informal meetings..."

More here:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2001133.Diaries_and_Letters_Vol_2

From Wikipedia:

"Sir Harold George Nicolson (1886–1968) was a British politician, diplomat, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster, and gardener. His wife was the writer Vita Sackville-West.His diary is one of the pre-eminent 20th-century British diaries and a noteworthy source on British political history from 1930 to the 1950s, particularly in regard to the period before the Second World War and the war itself."

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Nicolson

Hardback 1967.

511 pages + photographs.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $8.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.