The fringes of power
Subtitle: 10 Downing Street diaries, 1939-1955
By: by John Colville.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 796
Subjects: Colville, John Rupert, Sir -- Diaries.; Diplomats -- Great Britain -- Diaries.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1936-1945.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1964.
Genres: Diaries.
Description: "Sir John Rupert "Jock" Colville, CB, CVO (28 January 1915 ? 19 November 1987), was a British civil servant. He is best known for his diaries, which provide an intimate view of number 10 Downing Street during the wartime Prime Ministership of Winston Churchill....Colville was Assistant Private Secretary to three Prime Ministers: Neville Chamberlain, 1939?40, Winston Churchill, 1940?41 and 1943?45, (and Joint Principal Private Secretary, 1951?55), Clement Attlee, 1945."--Wikipedia.
Notes: Includes index.