John Jolliffe

The powers that were

Ivan Maisky’s diaries contain sharp insights on Chamberlain, Churchill — and the ‘blind moles’ in the House of Lords who in 1938 still proclaimed Hitler Europe’s saviour

  • The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932—1943

    edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky

    Yale University Press, pp. 632

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