Topic: James Lees-Milne

Nemesis The Battle for Japan 194445

The article reviews the book " 394 CONTEMPORARY REVIEW are essays into the 'major topics' - the origins of Nazi Germany, the working of the new regime, the Nazis' foreign policy, war aims and policy towards the Jews and other groups they hated, and ...

Books of the Year - Anita Brookner

As I spent a large part of the year writing, my actual reading was rather restricted, and limited to fact rather than fiction. I very much enjoyed Ferdinand Mount's Cold Cream (Bloomsbury, 20) and the endlessly fascinating Diaries of James Lees-Milne ...

Unfaltering to the end

THE MILK OF PARADISE : DIARIES 1993-1997 by James Lees-Milne, edited by Michael Bloch John Murray, While staying at Chatsworth for Christmas 1994, James Lees-Milne records an exchange with his old friend, Patrick Leigh Fermor, on the subject of keeping a diary. This ...