Champion Redoubtable : The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter

Inside British politics and upper class social life from the outbreak of the first world war to the end of the second - by the daughter of H H Asquith, Prime Minister and Liberal Leader. The thirty years of Violet Bonham Carter's diaries and letters reflect two world wars, the decline in liberalism and Violet's own life.

Mark Pottle read modern history at the University of Sheffield and at Wolfson College, Oxford (where he is now a research fellow). He is the editor of the previous volumes of these letters & diaries.