Chris Mullin

Chips Channon’s judgment was abysmal, but the diaries are a great work of literature

Delights of the second volume, edited by Simon Heffer, include a bomb dropping on Channon’s dinner party and an Austrian archduke arriving to clear the debris

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  • Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1938-43

    Simon Heffer

    Hutchinson, pp. 1050, £35

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