The Fringes of PowerAt the outset of the Second World War John Colville a young diplomat was seconded from the foreign office to Number 10 Downing Street. For nine of the next sixteen years he served three prime ministers briefly Neville Chamberlain and Clement Attlee but for much of that time as Private Secretary to Winston Churchill. During those momentous years Colville kept a diary though this was forbidden by wartime regulations locking it nightly into his desk at

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