The fringes of power : Downing Street diaries, 1939-1955 /

• Main Author: Colville, John Rupert Sir (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : Hodder and Stoughton, c1985.
• Subjects: Διπλωμάτες > Μεγάλη Βρετανία > Ημερολόγια.; Παγκόσμιος πόλεμος, 1939-1945 > Μεγάλη Βρετανία.

At the outset of the Second World War, John Colville was seconded from the Foreign Office to No. 10 Downing Street. There he served three Prime Ministers - Neville Chamberlain and Clement Attlee briefly, and for most of the time, Winston Churchill. This is his diary of those years and the post war y...