Dimensions
138 x 216 x 23mm
Leaves From A Diplomat's Diary
This fake diary was the subject of a famous court case at which the author (revealed to be Hesketh Pearson) was acquitted. Here are intimate recollections of the author's friends and acquaintances in high social and diplomatic circles right across Europe during the first decades of the 20th century.
At once hilarious and illuminating, these recollections of the great movers and shakers of the early 20th century actually provide wonderfully subtle and colourful descriptions of just how they moved and shook the public, and their equally ambitious associates. So many of the great, and not so great, decisions that would shape the twentieth century took place behind closed doors.
This diary is a whispering gallery of the shadowy manoeuvres, the expedient alliances, the posturings, the quiet coups, and of course the indiscretions, blunders and pre-occupations of all of the dominant personalities of the day.
