Harold Nicolson: Diaries & Letters 1930-1939 (Used Hardcover) - Harold Nicolson, edited by Nigen Nicolson

Condition: Dust cover has small tears and is faded. Book itself is in good condition.

To be a distinguished writer, scholar, diplomat and statesman should qualify anyone for posterity. But The Honorable Sir Harold Nicolson had two additional gifts, a striking talent for friendship on so many levels and the ability to communicate with wit, urbanity and grace. For thirty-five years he employed both in personal diaries of passing events, social, political and literary.

This book, first in a three-volume series of diaries and letters, was edited by Nicolson's younger son, whose introduction is in itself a small masterpiece of perceptive candor. The diaries traverse the decade from 1930, when Sir Harold left the British Foreign Service, to the outbreak of the Second World War.