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Volume 1 covers 1886-1920. Harold Nicolson, great diplomat, diarist and raconteur, moved in numerous worlds and knew an extraordinary number of distinguished people. This first volume of James Lees-Milne's biography describes his nomadic childhood in Budapest, Tehran, Constantinople and Bulgaria; his English schooling in Folkestone and Wellington; his undergraduate years at Balliol, and his early independent travels in Europe. The author then traces Nicolson's diplomatic service in Spain, his stormy courtship of and marriage to Vita Sackville-West, and his involvement with the Foreign Office during the First World War. Nicolson's papers from this period bequeath to us not only an astute political judgement of the aftermath of the war, but also fascinating personal insights into both Balfour and Lloyd George. Mr. Lees-Milne has endeavoured to let Nicolson tell his own story, often in his own inimitable words, with the minimum of intervention. After the war Nicolson was in the Diplomatic Service in Paris, and he also embarked on a literary career. His friendship with Cocteau began at this period and he met leading literary figures such as Gide and Proust. Then his introduction to the Bloomsbury Group, who had a decisive influence on him, came about at the same time as he was writing books on Tennyson, Byron and Swinburne. This volume covers his life until 1929 when he resigned from the Diplomatic Service to join the staff of the Evening Standard.

Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters, 1930-1939, Vol. 1

From the Boer war to the Suez Crisis. From Kaiser Wilhelm and the Tsar to Khrushchev and Kennedy. From the footman and the hansom cab to the satellite and the supermarket. Harold Nicolson not only lived through an extraordinary period of history, he helped shape it. And he interpreted it for posterity in a series of remarkable books. Nicolson was a successful diplomat, politician, writer, and early media personality, yet he struggled with a nagging sense of failure. A homosexual at a time when exposure would have meant professional and social ruin, he was also one half of a strange, passionate and undoubtedly successful marriage which lasted forty-nine years. The tides of history swirled around Nicolson - so, too, did a cast of characters which reads like a who's who of the first half of the twentieth century. He worked alongside Balfour, Lloyd George, Curzon and Ramsay MacDonald. He was a spokesman for the anti-appeasement group which centred on Eden and Churchill. Everyone from John Betjeman and King George V to Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky praised his writing. And he still found time to design one of England's most beautiful gardens. Drawing on his own experience of diplomacy and Whitehall, Laurence Bristow-Smith has written a new and authoritative life of one of the twentieth century's most complex characters - a man who always kept half-an-eye on history.

From the Boer war to the Suez Crisis. From Kaiser Wilhelm and the Tsar to Khrushchev and Kennedy. From the footman and the hansom cab to the satellite and the supermarket. Harold Nicolson not only lived through an extraordinary period of history, he helped shape it. And he interpreted it for posterity in a series of remarkable books. Nicolson was a successful diplomat, politician, writer, and early media personality, yet he struggled with a nagging sense of failure. A homosexual at a time when exposure would have meant professional and social ruin, he was also one half of a strange, passionate and undoubtedly successful marriage which lasted forty-nine years. The tides of history swirled around Nicolson - so, too, did a cast of characters which reads like a who's who of the first half of the twentieth century. He worked alongside Balfour, Lloyd George, Curzon and Ramsay MacDonald. He was a spokesman for the anti-appeasement group which centred on Eden and Churchill. Everyone from John Betjeman and King George V to Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky praised his writing. And he still found time to design one of England's most beautiful gardens. Drawing on his own experience of diplomacy and Whitehall, Laurence Bristow-Smith has written a new and authoritative life of one of the twentieth century's most complex characters - a man who always kept half-an-eye on history.

Harold Nicolson : A Biography, Volume 1 (one) 1886-1929

One of the great 20th century political diariesHarold Nicolson was one of the three great political diarists of the 20th century (along with Chips Channon and Alan Clark). Nicolson was an MP (Conservative, 1935-45, who also flirted with Labour after WWII). He had previously been in the Foreign Office and attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and material from his period is included in this new edition for the first time. Nicolson never achieved high office, but rarely a day went by when he didn't record what was going on at Westminster. He socialised widely, was married to the poet and author Vita Sackville-West, and together they created the famous garden at Sissinghurst. Both were bi-sexuals and had affairs outside their marriage. This new edition also draws on diary entries and letters previously considered too sensitive for inclusion. The diversity of Harold Nicolson's interests and the irony in his writing make his diary a highly entertaining record of his life and times, as well as a document of great historical value.

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'An absorbing portrait of an extinct type of Englishman.' Sunday Times 'A scintillating, pointillist portrait of the beginnings of a career and a marriage.' Times Harold Nicolson - great diplomat, diarist and raconteur - moved in numerous worlds and knew an extraordinary number of distinguished people. This, the first volume of James Lee-Milne's superb two-part biography, traces the life through Nicolson's nomadic childhood in Budapest, Tehran, Constantinople and Bulgaria, his education at Wellington and Balliol, his independent travels in Europe, his early diplomatic service in Spain, his stormy courtship of and marriage to Vita Sackville-West, and his service to the Foreign Office during the Great War. Subsequently he worked in Paris and there encountered Cocteau, Gide and Proust while also embarking on his own literary career. This volume carries the story up to 1929 when Nicolson joined the staff of the Evening Standard.

Harold Nicolson is one of the three great political diarists of the 20th century. Nicolson was an MP who attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He never achieved high office, but rarely a day went by when he didn't record what was going on at Westminster. He socialized widely, was married to the poet and author Vita Sackville-West, and together they created the famous garden at Sissinghurst. The diversity of Harold Nicolson's interests and the irony in his writing make his diary a highly entertaining record of his life and times, as well as a document of great historical value.

This is a history of one of the oldest Hebridean clans from its origins in a remote Scandanavian past to modern times. The clan still holds land on the Isle of Skye and is active with the Highland Clan MacNeacail Federation. Black and white and color photographs, including some of the tartans. Extensive footnotes.

This is a history of one of the oldest Hebridean clans from its origins in a remote Scandanavian past to modern times. The clan still holds land on the Isle of Skye and is active with the Highland Clan MacNeacail Federation. Black and white and color photographs, including some of the tartans. Extensive footnotes.

Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat. The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Likes to stalk Mr. and Mrs. Next Door's poodle. I used to drag him around on a lead, but, as I explained to Mrs. Next Door, he ate it.Thongs: Stupid underwear worn by old Swotty Knickers, Lindsay What's the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell.Full-Frontal Snogging: Kissing with the trimmings, lip to lip, open mouth, tongues...everything (apart from dribble, which is never acceptable). As taught to me by a professional snogger.In this wildly funny journal of a year in the life of Georgia Nicolson, British author Louise Rennison has perfectly captured the soaring joys and bottomless angust if being a teenager. In the spirit of Bridget Jones' Diary, this fresh, irreverent, and simply hilarious book will leave you laughing out loud. As Georgia would say, it's "Fabbity fab fab!" Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL), Books for Youth Editor's Choice 2000 (Booklist), Top 10 Youth First Novels 2000(Booklist), 2001 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, 2001 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA), and 2001 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers (ALA)

Written like a journal, the many trials, tribulations, and everyday dramas of a teenager are presented in this amusing tale about one young girl who struggles to get things right in her life.

Time to gird the loins and pucker up. Blimey O'Reilly's trousers! Three maybe-boyfriends is a lot for any girl to handle—red-bottomed or not. What with Robbie the Sex God back from Kiwi-a-gogo land wanting to "get coffee" and whatsit, Masimo the Luuurve God saying things like "Ciao, Georgia, see you later" (the good see-you-later or the bad see-you-later??), and her mate Dave the Laugh snogging her in a pond, it's enough to make any girl mad. Good thing she has the ace gang to keep her sane. Ish. But now that she has tearfully eschewed Robbie the Sex God with a firm hand, Georgia is left with two potential snoggees to choose from, and it's high time she left the cakeshop of love for good. This time with a gorgey Italian cakey. Or a nip-libbling Dave the Tart. But certainly not both. Maybe.

The story of Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In "Portrait of a Marriage," their son Nigel combines his mother's memoir with his own explanations and what he learned from their many letters. Even during her various love affairs with women, Vita maintained a loving marriage with Harold. The book presents an often misunderstood but always fascinating couple. "It is as close to a cry from the heart as anybody writing in English in our time has come, and it is a cry that, once heard, is not likely ever to be forgotten...Unexpected and astonishing."

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There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and Passchendaele. On the other hand there are those who view Haig as a man who successfully struggled with appalling difficulties to produce an army which took the lead in defeating Germany in 1918, winning the greatest series of victories in British Military history. Just as the success of the Alanbrooke war diaries can be put down to its 'horse's mouth' view of Churchill and the conduct of WWII, so Haig's Diaries, hitherto only previously available in bowdlerised form, give the C-in-C's view of Asquith - he records him getting drunk and incapable - and his successor Lloyd George, of whom he was highly critical. As Haig records the relationship it was stormy ('I have no great opinion of L.G as a man or leader' - Sept 1916). The diaries show him intriguing with the King (George V) vs. Lloyd George. Additional - and never previously published - are his day by day accounts of the key battles of the war, not least the Somme campaign of 1916.' I found Foch (Allied C-in-C) most selfish and obstinate...Foch suffers from a swollen head, and thinks himself another Napoleon.' Haig is revealed as an early admirer of the tank and of the 'airoplane'. He revels in turning the well-meaning BEF under Sir John French into the professional fighting force that eventualy one the war.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1997 By Radek Sikorski. xvi, 254 p., ill., maps A fine copy in red cloth boards with a very good, near fine dust jacket.

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Quarto, PP.136, Color Photos By John Miller, The Story Of The Garden Of Sackville- West And Her Husband Harold Nicolson, Now Part Of The National Trust