Siren Years A Canadian Diplomat Abroad 1937-1945 ** Signed **

MacMillan of Canada. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0770511929 . Signed by the author, to Bill Luxton, on the title page. Black Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. Very Good, the pages are tightly bound, clean & unmarked. Spine end and corner bumping. The DJ is Good fwith spine sunning and a small piece missing of off the spine end bottom. "Charles Ritchie, one of Canada's most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps from the page. In wartime England, Ritchie, as Second Secretary at the Canadian High Commission, served as private secretary to Vincent Massey, whose second-in-command was Lester B. Pearson, future prime minister of Canada. In a perfect position to observe both statecraft and the London social whirl that continued even during the war, Ritchie provides a fascinating, perceptive, and (surprisingly) humorous picture of the London Blitz - the people in the parks, the shabby streets, the heightened love affairs - and the vagaries of the British at war. "; 8.35 X 5.35 X 0.87 inches; 216 pages; Signed by Author .