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The second volume of the remarkable Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon A masterpiece a time machine that transports the reader back to British politics and high society at the end of the 1930s Robert Harris The uncensored unvarnished thought of one of the 20th century s greatest diarists Best Biographies of the Year Telegraph An unrivalled guide to the social and political life of Britain in the first half of the 20th century Books of the Year The Times Fascinating New Statesman Never a dull day never a dull sentence Daily Mail 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