Category: History

Peter Fleming (journalist, soldier, travel writer and brother of Ian) commissioned Jan Struther to write a regular column for The Times about “an ordinary sort of woman who leads an ordinary sort of life”.

I ordered a book from Adelaide Booksellers, yes, in Adelaide, on 9th January.

Last week I was invited to the Savile to hear Simon Heffer talk about Chips Channon’s diaries, of which he has edited two volumes with one more due in September.

Chips Channon’s misjudgements about the course of the war and politics make good reading.

Here is Chips striking a different note.