Books by Harold Nicolson
The Harold Nicolson Diaries
by Harold Nicolson
He is a good describer of people, and what it was like to be in the room with them. In some ways he was the perfect diarist
The Evolution of Diplomatic Method
by Harold Nicolson
Nicholson plunges a gleaming rapier into the argument that the pre-WW1 system of secret diplomacy had been replaced by open’ multilateral diplomacy.
Interviews where books by Harold Nicolson were recommended
The best books on Why We Need Diplomats, recommended by Geoff Berridge
Academic and author of textbooks on the field tells us that diplomacy can well do without rank amateurs “in the same way that medicine can do without snake-oil merchants”
Five Diaries and Autobiographies, recommended by Craig Brown
The Private Eye satirist and author Craig Brown recommends five entertaining published diaries, from Andy Warhol to Harpo Marx – and tells us why parody is a pickpocket
