An Angry Bull-frog

This is the second volume of the complete edition of the enormous diaries of Henry “Chips” Channon, the wealthy American expatriate who became a British Conservative MP in 1935. This volume reaches from the immediate aftermath of the Munich agreement in October 1938, through the start of the Second World War in September 1939, the replacement of Neville Chamberlain by Winston Churchill in May 1940, the outbreak of war against Japan and establishment of the American alliance in December 1941, to the fall of Mussolini in July 1943. Until a reconstruction of the government in July 1941, Channon was parliamentary private secretary to the under-secretary at the