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The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries.

Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by turns, they are the unfettered observations of a man who went everywhere and who knew everybody. Whether describing the antics of London society in the interwar years, or the growing scandal surrounding his close friends Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson during the abdication crisis, or the mood in the House of Commons in the lead up to the Munich crisis, his sense of drama and his eye for the telling detail are unmatched. These are diaries that bring a whole epoch vividly to life.

A heavily abridged and censored edition of the diaries was published in 1967. Only now, sixty years after Chips's death, can an extensive text be shared.

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  • Title Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38
  • Author Chips Channon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 1024
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hutchinson Radius
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781786331816 / 1786331810
  • Weight 3.88 lbs (1.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.52 x 2.56 in (24.13 x 16.56 x 6.50 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Diaries, Great Britain - Politics and government -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020416522
  • Dewey Decimal Code 941.082

About the author

Sir Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago in 1897 (although he claimed 1899 as the year of his birth, until the true facts were exposed - to his embarrassment - in the Sunday Express). The son of a wealthy businessman, he accompanied the American Red Cross to Paris in 1917, was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, and then settled in London where he mingled with society and enjoyed the high life. He married into the Guinness family, and became a Conservative MP for Southend from 1935 until his death.
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