How Churchill s first inauspicious meeting with Stalin paved the way for Hitler s defeat
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The most attractive feature of
The Powerful and the Damned is Lionel Barber’s approach to presenting his memoirs and opinions. He does this by setting out extracts from his diary spanning his editorship of the
FT. The huge benefit of this, from the reader’s point of view, is that it contains the contemporaneous narration of events and interviews reflecting the author’s opinion of how he viewed those events and interviews. This is indeed invaluable since it provides a plethora of information from a skilled, experienced, and non-partisan and independent source.
He was, so to say, “present at the creation”, to borrow from the title of the autobiography of William Averell Harriman, the US Secretary of State at the beginning of the Cold War. This is made all the more interesting by Barber’s frequent annotations of those contemporaneous scripts. These annotations, based on events that occurred after those recorded in the diary, are used by Barber to indicate whether his