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...selection for this volume covers the decade leading up to World War II. It is a strikingly perceptive, intensely personal history of those turbulent years, made all the more so because Nigel Nicolson includes letters exchanged by his father and mother, the novelist and poetess Victoria ("Vita") Sackville-West...
Theirs was an odd marriage. While Harold was going everywhere-meeting here with Duff Cooper, there with Lord Beaverbrook, growling at Churchill for failing to muster sufficient opposition to Hitler-Vita remained secluded at Sissinghurst, the Tudor castle they had bought in Kent. She was a strangely masculine woman who wore breeches and gaiters in winter and linen slacks in summer, and who often said that her one enduring regret was that she was not born a boy. Still, Vita was enchantingly feminine where Harold was concerned. Her letters to him were filled with tenderness, as were...
...probability, their correspondence set some kind of record, for they wrote to each other every day when they were apart. Yet Vita steadfastly refused to take part in Harold's busy life, even turned down his plea to make a single token appearance at his side when he successfully campaigned for Parliament...
...American social climber, though he faithfully recorded each of the many times he met her at parties. Like many Englishmen of his generation and class, he was troubled almost as deeply about the abdication as he was about Munich. "What is so tragic," he confided in a letter to Vita, "is that now the people have got over the first sentimental shock, they want the King to abdicate. Opinion in the house is now almost wholly anti-King...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ITALY by Milton Gendel. 276 pages. McGraw-Hill. $25. A fascinating pictorial chronicle from the Iron Age to La Dolce Vita, with half a dozen historical essays by Italian and British professors...