"He certainly cut a dash. The photographs in this book show a wonderfully dandyish figure, posing eccentrically among the soldiers and looking curiously like Dr Roy Strong. This highlights the third quality which vindicates the book: its sense of fun. For the "diaries" are not in fact diaries at all, but a continuous, practically daily, letter to his wife describing the food, the climate and the landscape as much as the politics; the tone is light, even frivolous, gently satirical, self-deprecating in a deliberately English way. It is a pose, of course, but an attractive one, expertly maintained to this day. He mislaid it only in his sub-Churchillian memoirs, which buried many of the best moments from these letters in a turgid surround of ponderous history, recalling the earnest Macmillan of the Thirties. On reflection, one would trade a dozen volumes of this diary for the six memoirs any day."
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A review of War Diaries: Politics and War in the Mediterranean, January 1943–May 1945 by Harold Macmillan
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Harold Macmillan
1957 – 1963
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton OM PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative politician and publisher who served six years as Prime Minister (1957–1963). As Prime Minister, he worked to decolonize the British Empire in Africa and repair United Kingdom–United States relations after the Suez Crisis. He also led the Conservative Party to accept the post-war consensus of Keynesian economics and the welfare state. However, he was forced to resign by the Profum
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