Reading the diary Jim (James Lees-Milne) is delightful, especially in the period from 1942 to 1949, visited castles, lunch in London clubs, meeting with writers of all time and the British aristocracy while the Europe is at war and Britain bombed. On the war you shall know nothing but this nothing is tasty. Michael Bloch describes precisely what Jim has lived and transports us into a world so close yet so far away. I will say nothing of the privacy of interested which is also one of the points of the book. Perhaps just to add that Jim and his wife have lived that Vita and Harold have themselves lived in a mixture of destinies that only the British are able to show us without vulgarity and elegance with this was offset somewhat anglophile appreciate that as .