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A first edition, published by Sidgwick and Jackson UK 1970, Signed by the author, Cecil King, dedicated to a Donald Galbraith. and dated May 1973, in flowing black ink.
In the form of a diary, with frank assessments of politicians and a huge range of people in wartime London by King , who at the time was the editor of the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial on Fleet Street.
Throughout the period King was in frequent contact and consultation with the leading figueres of the day, the recipient of much of the gossip of Whitehall , and particularly well informed about various intrigues in the Government. A very readable and revealing diary, which was only deemed safe to publish in the 1970's .
Edited by William Armstrong, the historian and a member of the publisher's board.
Cecil Harmsworth King was born in 1901, ( his mother was the sister of newspaper magnates Lord Rothermere and Lord Northcliffe, and King became director of the Daily Mirror in 1929, and was chairman of the Mirror Group from 1951 to 1963, and of IPC magazines. He spent his later retirement years in Dublin.
Hardback, 1st Edition. Illustrated with both period photographs, and cartoons, editorials etc from newspapers.
