Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart, First Lord Carnock

Without exaggeration this can be said to be two books in one: it is both a biography of Harold Nicolson''s father and a history of British diplomacy from the late nineteenth-century until the middle of the First World War.Described as ''the quintessential diplomat'' Sir Arthur''s various postings took in Berlin, Peking, Athens, Teheran, Budapest, Constantinople, Madrid and St Petersburg. During hi...