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Sir Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago in 1897 (although he claimed 1899 as the year of his birth, until the true facts were exposed - to his embarrassment - in the Sunday Express).
Sep 8, 2022 · Henry Channon. This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he ...
Oct 11, 2021 · Chips ahoy! In praise of Chips Channon’s acerbic musings, by Sasha Swire. Scandalous snob Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon was a renowned society host and keeper of name-dropping diaries. Fellow diarist Sasha Swire reveals how Chips inspired her own equally indiscreet memoir – ahead of a fabulously juicy panel event at Cliveden Literary ...
Aug 18, 2021 · v, 495 pages, 32 pages of plates : 24 cm
Sep 4, 2021 · The first volume of the diaries of Henry ‘Chips’ Channon, published last March, ended as Neville Chamberlain was returning from Munich, about to brandish his legendary ‘piece of paper ...
