First Edition, First Printings of all three volumes. Volume I: 1930-1939. Volume II: The War Years 1939-1945. Volume III: The Later Years 1945-1962. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. Published 1966, 1967 and 1968 respectively. Original bright yellow cloth in dustwrappers. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Harold Nicolson, journalist and society figure, was an MP and junior minister during ther war years. The second volume of memoirs from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information during World War II. The third volume of the author's memoirs covering the years between the end of the second world war and the death of his wife, V. Sackville-West, in 1962. Nicolson's letters and diaries provide an insight into his post-war flirtation with the Labour Party, the Suez Crisis and revealing profiles of the major political players of the age, such as an ageing Churchill, Eden, Bevan and Macmillan. - from Amzon