Yazar: Harold Nicolson

Without exaggeration this can be said to be two books in one: it is both a biography of Harold Nicolson's father and a history of British diplomacy from the late nineteenth-century until the mid …

'Of all branches of human endeavour, diplomacy is the most protean.' That is how Harold Nicolson begins this book. It is an apt opening. The Paris Conference of 1919, attended by thirty-two …

On the face of it, bracketing Harold Nicolson and Vladimir Nabokov seems unexpected but the latter paid a remarkable tribute to Some People. When speaking to Harold Nicolson's son, Nigel, he con …

Written two years after the commencement of the Second World War, the chapters in this book succinctly put forward the case for reorganizing the foundations of the social order, by rejecting capitali …

Written two years after the commencement of the Second World War, the chapters in this book succinctly put forward the case for reorganizing the foundations of the social order, by rejecting capitali …

"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world" First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is …

This 1921 biography of the controversial French poet was the first English monograph on the subject.  Nicolson not only reveals Verlaine through his poetry and his relationships, including his i …

One of the great 20th century political diaries’Brilliant, riveting stuff’ TRIBUNE’One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on every page, as eviden …

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